Ligure

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Ligure \Lig"ure\ (l[i^]g"[-u]r; 277), n. [L. ligurius, Gr.
     ligy`rion, liggoy`rion, ligkoy`rion, lygkoy`rion, equiv. to
     Heb. leshem.]
     A kind of precious stone.
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           The third row a ligure, an agate, and an amethyst.
                                                    --Ex. xxviii.
                                                    19.
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From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Ligure
     (Heb. leshem) occurs only in Ex. 28:19 and 39:12, as the name of
     a stone in the third row on the high priest's breastplate. Some
     have supposed that this stone was the same as the jacinth
     (q.v.), others that it was the opal. There is now no mineral
     bearing this name. The "ligurite" is so named from Liguria in
     Italy, where it was found.