STRONGS NUMBER H916


Word Summary
bedolach: probably bdellium
Original Word: בְּדֹלח
Transliteration: bedolach
Phonetic Spelling: (bed-o'-lakh)
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: probably bdellium
Meaning: something in pieces, bdellium, a, gum, a, pearl
Strong's Concordance
bdellium

Probably from badal; something in pieces, i.e. Bdellium, a (fragrant) gum (perhaps amber); others a pearl -- bdellium.

see HEBREW badal

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H916. bedolach

בְּדֹ֫לַחnoun [masculine] probably bdellium (ᵑ6‎ ; בְּדוּלְחָא ᵑ7‎; etymology dubious; LagGes. Abh. 20 proposes Sanskrit udûkhala) with article ׳הַבְּ‎, apparently therefore well known; one of the products of the land Havilah Genesis 2:12; used in simile of colour of manna הַבְּדֹלַח כְּעֵין וְעֵינוֺNumbers 11:7. — Meaning somewhat uncertain; ᵐ5Genesis 2:12 ἄνθραξ, Numbers 11:7 κρύσταλλος; Saad AW Ki Bo and others pearls, compare Lag Or. ii. 44; JosAnt. iii. 1. 6 Aq Theod Symm ᵑ7‎ most bdellium, an odoriferous transparent gum, of yellowish colour. (compare SmithDict. Bible SigismundAromata, 18.)