σάπφειρος
From LSJ
Κύριε, σῶσον τὸν δοῦλον σου κτλ. → Lord, save your slave ... (mosaic inscription from 4th cent. church in the Negev)
English (LSJ)
(proparox.), ἡ,
A lapis lazuli, of which two chief kinds, κυανῆ and χρυσῆ, are mentioned by Thphr.Lap.23,37, D.P.1105; cf. LXX Ex.24.10, al., J.AJ3.7.5, Peripl. M.Rubr.39. (Cf. Hebr. sappīr, perh. not Semitic.)
German (Pape)
[Seite 862] ἡ, auch σάμφειρος, der Sapphir, ein Edelstein, von dem es 2 Hauptarten gab, κυανῆ u. χρυσῆ, D. Per. 1105; Diosc.
