margarites denotes a valuable gem appearing in trade, adornment, warning imagery, cargo, and the city's gates.

The term denotes a valuable gem in material settings: sought by a trader, worn among costly adornments, listed as cargo, and used for the city's gates. The same object also appears in a warning about casting valued things before pigs.

1. Valuable gem in material and figurative settings · dominant

   The plural accusative forms occur where a trader seeks fine items in Matthew 13:45 and where they are not to be cast before pigs in Matthew 7:6; in Matthew 13:46 the singular accusative is found after the trader discovers one valuable item. Dative and genitive plural forms occur among gold, precious stone, clothing, and cargo in 1 Timothy 2:9, Revelation 17:4, and Revelation 18:12, while Revelation 21:21 presents the city's gates as made from these gems.

   Matthew 13:45Matthew 13:46Matthew 7:61 Timothy 2:9Revelation 18:12Revelation 21:21

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the supplied verses, the APB normally presents the term as "pearls," using singular "pearl" where the clause describes one item or one gate's material. These English forms confirm the verse-level presentation rather than a separate lexical distinction.