7827. shecheleth
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shecheleth: Onycha

Original Word: שְׁחֶלֶת
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Transliteration: shcheleth
Pronunciation: shekh'-eh-leth
Phonetic Spelling: (shekh-ay'-leth)
KJV: onycha
NASB: onycha
Word Origin: [apparently from the same as H7826 (שַׁחַל - lion) through some obscure idea, perhaps that of peeling off by concussion of sound]

1. a scale or shell, i.e. the aromatic mussel

Strong's Exhaustive 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

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).

Forms and Transliterations
וּשְׁחֵ֙לֶת֙ ושחלת ū·šə·ḥê·leṯ ūšəḥêleṯ usheChelet
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Englishman's Concordance
Exodus 30:34
HEB: סַמִּ֗ים נָטָ֤ף ׀ וּשְׁחֵ֙לֶת֙ וְחֶלְבְּנָ֔ה סַמִּ֖ים
NAS: stacte and onycha and galbanum,
KJV: stacte, and onycha, and galbanum;
INT: spices stacte and onycha and galbanum spices

1 Occurrence

Strong's Hebrew 7827
1 Occurrence


ū·šə·ḥê·leṯ — 1 Occ.

7826
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