Lexical Summary hyakinthos: hyacinth Original Word: ὑάκινθοςTransliteration: hyakinthos Phonetic Spelling: (hoo-ak'-in-thos) Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Short Definition: hyacinth Meaning: hyacinth Strong's Concordance jacinth, a deep blue colored gemOf uncertain derivation; the "hyacinth" or "jacinth", i.e. Some gem of a deep blue color, probably the zirkon -- jacinth. Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 5192: ὑάκινθοςὑάκινθος, ὑακίνθου, ὁ, hyacinth, the name of a flower (Homer and other poets; Theophrastus), also of a precious stone of the same color, i. e. dark-blue verging toward black (A. V. jacinth (so R. V. with marginal reading sapphire); cf. B. D., under the word |