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== American Tract Society Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_15444" /> == | == American Tract Society Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_15444" /> == | ||
<p> Is a yellow or straw-colored gummy substance, originally a vegetable production, but reckoned in the mineral kingdom. It is found in lumps in the sea and on the shores of Prussia, Sicily, Turkey, etc. [[Externally]] it is rough; it is very transparent, and on being rubbed, yields a fragrant odor. It was formerly supposed to be medicinal, but is now employed only in the manufacture of trinkets, ornaments, etc. </p> <p> The [[Hebrew]] word chasmil is translated by the [[Septuagint]] and [[Vulgate]] electrum, that is, amber, because the Hebrew denotes a very brilliant amber-like metal, composed of silver and gold, which was much prized in antiquity, [[Ezekiel]] 1:4,27; 8:2 . Others, as Bochart, refer here to the mixture of gold and brass, of which the ancients had several kinds, some of which exhibited a high degree of luster. [[Something]] similar to this was probably also the "fine brass," in [[Ezra]] 8:27; [[Revelation]] 1:15 . </p> | <p> Is a yellow or straw-colored gummy substance, originally a vegetable production, but reckoned in the mineral kingdom. It is found in lumps in the sea and on the shores of Prussia, Sicily, Turkey, etc. [[Externally]] it is rough; it is very transparent, and on being rubbed, yields a fragrant odor. It was formerly supposed to be medicinal, but is now employed only in the manufacture of trinkets, ornaments, etc. </p> <p> The [[Hebrew]] word chasmil is translated by the [[Septuagint]] and [[Vulgate]] electrum, that is, amber, because the Hebrew denotes a very brilliant amber-like metal, composed of silver and gold, which was much prized in antiquity, [[Ezekiel]] 1:4,27; 8:2 . Others, as Bochart, refer here to the mixture of gold and brass, of which the ancients had several kinds, some of which exhibited a high degree of luster. [[Something]] similar to this was probably also the "fine brass," in [[Ezra]] 8:27; [[Revelation]] 1:15 . </p> | ||
