Lexical Summary shecheleth: (an ingredient of the holy incense) perhaps onycha Original Word: שְׁחֶלֶתTransliteration: shecheleth Phonetic Spelling: (shekh-ay'-leth) Part of Speech: Noun Feminine Short Definition: (an ingredient of the holy incense) perhaps onycha Meaning: (an ingredient of the holy incense) perhaps onycha Strong's Concordance 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 Brown-Driver-Briggs H7827. shecheleth שְׁחֵ֫לֶת noun feminine an ingredient of the holy incense, + חֶלְבְּנָה נָטָף,, Exodus 30:34; ᵑ9 ᵐ5 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). |
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