H7827

שְׁחֵ֫לֶת

she.che.letH:N-F

onycha

1) onycha 1a) an ingredient used in the holy incense

Full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon entry

שְׁחֵ֫לֶת noun feminine an ingredient of the holy incense, + נָטָף, חֶלְבְּנָה, Exod 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^{1388 f.} Di Shipley-Cook^{Ency. Bib. ONYCHA}; so most; KG Jacob^{ZMG xliii (1889), 354} proposes amber.

1 occurrence

Exodus 30:34