Ancient Greek

Noun

σαρδόνυξ • ‎(sardónux) m ‎(genitive σαρδόνῠχος); third declension

1. sardonyx
   • 362 BCE – 262 BCE, Philemon, Collected Works 216
   • 129 CE – 216 CE, Galen, Collected Works 5.46
   • 129 CE – 216 CE, Galen, AP 1.116
   • 93 CE – 94 CE, Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews 3.7.5
   • 75 CE, Josephus, The Jewish War 5.5.7
   • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, Apoc. 21.20
   • 200 CE – 400 CE, Pseudo-Plutarch, On Rivers 20.4

Declension

Descendants

• Latin: sardonyx

References

• σαρδόνυξ in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “G4557”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979