Chrysolite - American Tract Society Bible Dictionary

A transparent precious stone, having the color of gold with a mixture of green, and a fine luster, . Many suppose it to be the topaz of the moderns.\par

Chrysolite - Apostolic Church, Dictionary - James Hastings

(χρυσόλιθος, )

In modern usage the name ‘chrysolite’ is applied to a transparent variety of olivine, used as a gem-stone and often called ‘peridot.’ The ancients applied the word to various yellowish gems. The Septuagint gives it as the equivalent of תַּרְשִׁישׁ, which Flinders Petrie (Hasting's Dictionary of the Bible (5 vols) iv. 620b) is inclined to identify with yellow jasper. The later Greeks gave the name chrysolite to the topaz, which was unknown in earlier times.

James Strahan.

Chrysolite - Faussets Bible Dictionary

(*gold stone*.) The garniture of the seventh foundation of New Jerusalem. The modern topaz.

Chrysolite - Kitto, John - Popular Cyclopedia Biblical Literature

Chrys´olite. This word occurs only in in the enumeration of the stones which formed the foundation of the heavenly Jerusalem. This stone is found solid, and in grains, or in angular pieces. The prevailing color is yellowish green, and pistachio green of every variety and degree of shade, but always with a yellow and gold luster. Although this stone is not mentioned in the Authorized Version of the Old Testament, it is supposed to be intended by the Hebrew word Tharshish, which occurs in ; ; ; ; ; ; , and is in all these places translated 'beryl.' The name Tharshish stone seems to intimate that it was known to the Hebrews as brought from the part so called. [TARSHISH]

Chrysolite - Smiths Bible Dictionary

Chrysolite. One of the precious stones in the foundation of the heavenly Jerusalem. . It has been already stated, (see Beryl.), that the chrysolite of the ancients is identical with the modern oriental topaz, or the tarhish of the Hebrew Bible.

Chrysolite - Watson, Richard - Biblical and Theological Dictionary

Rev 21:20, a precious stone of a golden colour. Schroder says it is the gem now called the Indian topaz, which is of a yellowish green colour, and very beautiful.

Chrysolite - Webster-1913

(n.) A mineral, composed of silica, magnesia, and iron, of a yellow to green color. It is common in certain volcanic rocks; -- called also olivine and peridot. Sometimes used as a gem. The name was also early used for yellow varieties of tourmaline and topaz.