The loadstone; the magnet the sense in which it was held by early voyagers; but others considered it a "precyowse stone," or gem.
·noun Lodestone; magnet. II. Adamant ·noun A stone imagined by some to be of impenetrable hardness;...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
(Heb. shamir), Ezek. 3:9. The Greek word adamas means diamond. This stone is not referred to, but co...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
the translation of the Hebrew word Shamir in (Ezekiel 3:9) and Zech 7:12 In (Jeremiah 17:1) it is tr...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary