( Ezekiel 1:4 Ezekiel 1:27 ; 8:2 . Heb., hashmal, rendered by the LXX. elektron, and by the Vulgate electrum), a metal compounded of silver and gold. Some translate the word by "polished brass," others "fine brass," as in Revelation 1:15 ; 2:18 . It was probably the mixture now called electrum. The word has no connection, however, with what is now called amber, which is a gummy substance, reckoned as belonging to the mineral kingdom though of vegetable origin, a fossil resin.
(Heb. chasmal ) occurs only in ( Ezekiel 1:4 Ezekiel 1:27 ; 8:2 ) It is usually supposed that the Hebrew word chasmal (denotes a metal) and not the fossil resin called amber .
AMBER
am'-ber. See STONES, PRECIOUS.
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