And I will make thy bulwarks of jasper: and thy gates of graven stones, and all thy borders of desirable stones.
Ibn Ezra
כדכד Agates. It is hap. leg.; it is the name of a precious stone. ושמשתיך And thy windows. It is derived from שמש sun. It signifies the apertures, which are closed with glass in stately palaces. ושעריך And of thy gates. And the windows of thy gates. אקדח Carbuncles. A precious stone. The א is prosthetic; comp. קדחה is kindled (Deut. 32:22). To stones that are desired, that are not like those stones which are thrown about, and are of no value.
Hebrew and Aramaic words are the commentator’s citations of the sacred text; the English translation that follows each is the translator’s.
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