7827. shecheleth
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shecheleth: (an ingredient of the holy incense) perhaps onycha
Original Word: שְׁחֵ֫לֶ֫ת
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Transliteration: shecheleth
Phonetic Spelling: (shekh-ay'-leth)
Short Definition: onycha

NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin
from the same as shachal
Definition
(an ingredient of the holy incense) perhaps onycha
NASB Translation
onycha (1).

Brown-Driver-Briggs
שְׁחֵ֫לֶת noun feminine an ingredient of the holy incense, + נָטָף, חֶלְבְּנָה, Exodus 30:34; ᵐ5 ᵑ9 ὄνυξ, onyx (whence AV onycha), i.e. unguis odoratus, the operculum, or closing-flap, of certain molluscs, with pungent odour whenburnt, see Thes1388f. Di Shipley-CookEncy. Bib. ONYCHA; so most; KG JacobZMG xliii (1889), 354 proposes amber.

שׁחן (√ of following; compare Arabic be hot, then inflamed; Aramaic שְׁחַן, be warm, heat).



Strong's
onycha

Apparently from the same as shachal through some obscure idea, perhaps that of peeling off by concussion of sound; a scale or shell, i.e. The aromatic mussel. -- onycha.

see HEBREW shachal

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