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# בְּדֹלַח

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H916

**bdellium** — used 2 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

bdellium [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/916/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בְּדֹ֫לַח: bdellium [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/916/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] prob. bdellium (𝔖 ܒܶܪܽܘܠܚܳܐ; 𝔗 בְּדוּלְחָא; etym. dub.; LagGes. Abh. 20 prop. Skr. udûkhala) c. art. הַבְּ׳, apparently therefore well known; one of the products of the land Havilah Gn 2:12; used in simile of colour of manna וְעֵינוֹ כְּעֵין הַבְּדֹלַח Nu 11:7.—Meaning somewhat uncertain; 𝔊 Gn 2:12 ἄνθραξ, Nu 11:7 κρύσταλλος; Saad. A W Ki Bo al. pearls, cf. LagOr ii. 44; Jos Ant. iii. 1, 6 Aq Theod Symm 𝔙 most bdellium, an odoriferous transparent gum, of yellowish colour. (Cf. SmithDict. Bible Sigismund Aromata, 18.)

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: bdellium (2).

## In the verses

[Genesis 2:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.2.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.2.12/#tree)

וּֽזֲהַ֛ב הָאָ֥רֶץ הַהִ֖וא ט֑וֹב שָׁ֥ם הַבְּדֹ֖לַח וְאֶ֥בֶן הַשֹּֽׁהַם׃

*Word for word:* and the.gold of the.land (the) that \[is\].good \[are\].there (the) bdellium and.(the) stone of.(the) onyx

*JPS 1917:* and the gold of that land is good; there is bdellium and the onyx stone.

[Numbers 11:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.11.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.11.7/#tree)

וְהַמָּ֕ן כִּזְרַע־גַּ֖ד ה֑וּא וְעֵינ֖וֹ כְּעֵ֥ין הַבְּדֹֽלַח׃

*Word for word:* and the manna \[was\].like seed of.coriander it and appearance its \[was\].like the.appearance of.(the) bdellium

*JPS 1917:* Now the manna was like coriander seed, and the appearance thereof as the appearance of bdellium.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/916.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/916/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).