Lexicon shecheleth: (an ingredient of the holy incense) perhaps onycha Original Word: שְׁחֵ֫לֶ֫תPart of Speech: Noun Feminine Transliteration: shecheleth Phonetic Spelling: (shekh-ay'-leth) Short Definition: onycha NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom the same as shachalDefinition(an ingredient of the holy incense) perhaps onycha NASB Translationonycha (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 Thes 1388f. Di Shipley-Cook Ency. Bib. ONYCHA; so most; KG Jacob ZMG 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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