Peridot Etymology In The Beginning…Used as an item of adornment from more than 2500 years, Peridot has been called amongst others: Pitdah, Topazion, Topazos, Topaz, Chrysolite, Olivine, Evening Emerald and Gem of the Sun. All these pseudonyms make the task of finding Peridot’s exact etymological roots almost impossible. However, through a process of exploring these aliases and eliminating them one by one, we can get closer to learning the truth behind Peridot’s true origins.
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Cornelis bids the question: ” Whence could the poor Hebrews have obtained such a sum of money, and where could they have found such a diamond?” Cornelis gives another possible reason as to why such gems as these did not fit the circumstances: The tribes assigned such rare gems as diamond, ruby and sapphire in these sizes would have been the center of envy of the other tribes assigned less valuable gems. This he says may have caused dispute and dissension among the newly unified tribes, which could surley not have been God’s intention.However, of all the above it’s point 3 that is the clincher to the misnomer of Topaz.
Before the more exacting influences of modern science, most gemstones were not classed by specific properties like gravity, refractive indexes etc., but by their color. Therefore, the term Topaz was generic, used at the time to denote many different colored gems. In addition to this, there is the fact that the official Topaz gem type of today wasn’t recognized by that name until the 1700’s.
From these points alone, the ‘King James’ translation of Topaz being one of the 12 gems of the breastplate can be largely refuted as conjecture, and was probably based on revered jewels available at the time of translation in 1611, and totally unrelated to the gems known and sourced in ancient Egypt at the time of the Hebrew exodus. Rights Reserved.
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