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     * the likeness.
     # 26; 10:1; Ex 24:10; Job 37:22; Re 4:3,6; 21:11|
     * crystal.
       The Hebrew {kerach,} which generally denotes ice, doubtless
       here signifies crystal, ([krystallos,] from [kryos,] cold,
       ice, and [stellomai,] to concrete,) as it is rendered by the
       LXX. and Vulgate.  It is a very large class of silicious
       minerals, hard, pellucid, naturally colourless, of regularly
       angular figures, and of simple plates; not flexible, nor
       elastic, but giving fire with steel; not fermenting by acid
       menstrua, but calcinable in a strong fire.  There are three
       orders of pure crystal:  the first is perfect columnar
       crystals, with double pyramids, of eighteen planes, in an
       hexangular pyramid at each end; the second is that of perfect
       crystals, without a column, of twelve or sixteen planes, in
       two hexangular pyramids:  and the third is that of imperfect
       crystals, with single pyramids, of ten or twelve planes, in an
       hexangular or pentangular column.  Terrible crystal seems to
       denote that which was well cut and polished, vividly
       refracting the rays of light.