logo

Quotes About Onyx

It was like marble or quartz, but cut through to show the layers of black and white, with sometimes just a hint of red or brown. "What's this edge made of?" "Onyx. My first big play on Broadway was The Onyx Ring. The pool is one of my few luxuries.
~ Edward D. Hoch
Whatever universal masterpiece of tomorrow may be wrought from phantasm or terror will owe its acceptance rather to a supreme workmanship than to a sympathetic theme. Yet who shall declare the dark theme a positive handicap? Radiant with beauty, the Cup of the Ptolemies was carven of onyx.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
And the gold of that land is pure, and bdellium and onyx are found there.
~ Genesis 2:12
and onyx stones and gemstones to be mounted on the ephod and breastpiece.
~ Exodus 25:7
Take two onyx stones and engrave on them the names of the sons of Israel:
~ Exodus 28:9
and in the fourth row a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper. Mount these stones in gold filigree settings.
~ Exodus 28:20
The leaders brought onyx stones and gemstones to mount on the ephod and breastpiece,
~ Exodus 35:27
They mounted the onyx stones in gold filigree settings, engraved like a seal with the names of the sons of Israel.
~ Exodus 39:6
It cannot be valued in the gold of Ophir, in precious onyx or sapphire.
~ Job 28:16