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# חַשְׁמַל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2830

**shining** — used 3 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

shining [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2830/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חַשְׁמַל: amber [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2830/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] etym. and exact meaning dub.; evidently some shining substance; AV amber; supposed by Thes (q.v.) and most to be a brilliant amalgam of gold and silver, 𝔊 ἤλεκτρον (v Liddell & Scott s. v. 2), 𝔙 electrum; v. also Dl in BaerEzech. xii; only in the combination כְּעֵין ח׳ like the appearance of ח׳ Ez 1:4, 27; כְּעֵין הַחַשְׁמַ֑לָה Ez 8:2 (on ending ה—ָ v. Ges§ 90 f; Co del.).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 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: (to (1); of a shining substance (1); shining substance (1).

## In the verses

[Ezekiel 1:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.1.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.1.4/#tree)

וָאֵ֡רֶא וְהִנֵּה֩ ר֨וּחַ סְעָרָ֜ה בָּאָ֣ה מִן־הַצָּפ֗וֹן עָנָ֤ן גָּדוֹל֙ וְאֵ֣שׁ מִתְלַקַּ֔חַת וְנֹ֥גַֽהּ ל֖וֹ סָבִ֑יב וּמִ֨תּוֹכָ֔הּ כְּעֵ֥ין הַחַשְׁמַ֖ל מִתּ֥וֹךְ הָאֵֽשׁ׃

*Word for word:* and I.saw and there! a.wind of.storm \[was\].coming from the north a.cloud great and fire flashing and brightness \[belonged\].to it all.around and.\[was\] from the.middle of.it like the.appearance of.(the) shining.substance from the.middle of the.fire

*JPS 1917:* And I looked, and, behold, a stormy wind came out of the north, a great cloud, with a fire flashing up, so that a brightness was round about it; and out of the midst thereof as the colour of electrum, out of the midst of the fire.

[Ezekiel 8:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.8.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.8.2/#tree)

וָאֶרְאֶ֗ה וְהִנֵּ֤ה דְמוּת֙ כְּמַרְאֵה־אֵ֔שׁ מִמַּרְאֵ֥ה מָתְנָ֛יו וּלְמַ֖טָּה אֵ֑שׁ וּמִמָּתְנָ֣יו וּלְמַ֔עְלָה כְּמַרְאֵה־זֹ֖הַר כְּעֵ֥ין הַחַשְׁמַֽלָה׃

*Word for word:* and I.saw and there! a.likeness like.\[the\] appearance of.fire \[was\].from the.appearance his.hips his and (to) downwards fire and.\[was\] from hips his and (to) upwards like.\[the\] appearance of.brightness like the.appearance of (to \[the\].shining.substance

*JPS 1917:* Then I beheld, and lo a likeness as the appearance of fire: from the appearance of his loins and downward, fire; and from his loins and upward, as the appearance of brightness, as the colour of electrum.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2830.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2830/): 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).