'Pearl' in the Bible
The gold of that land is good; bdellium (a fragrant, valuable resin) and the onyx stone are found there.
White and violet linen hangings were fastened with fine white and purple linen cords to silver rods on marble columns. Gold and silver couches were arranged on a mosaic pavement of red feldspar, marble, mother-of-pearl, and precious stones.
Corals and pearl are not remembered, The acquisition of wisdom is above rubies.
Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it.
lading of gold, and silver, and precious stone, and pearl, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and every vessel of ivory, and every vessel of most precious wood, and brass, and iron, and marble,
saying, Woe, woe, the great city, she that was arrayed in fine linen and purple and scarlet, and decked with gold and precious stone and pearl!