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# bdellium

«bdellium» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **A sweet-smelling gum from a tree, or a pale gem or pearl…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

A sweet-smelling gum from a tree, or a pale gem or pearl, that people valued. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/bdellium/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In Genesis it is found in the land of Havilah near Eden. Manna looks like it, which suggests a small pale and sticky thing. Interpretation: The tradition says manna looked like bdellium, in colour like a pearl or a crystal. It adds that manna tasted like whatever each person wanted.

### examples

- and the gold of that land is good; there is bdellium and the onyx stone. (Torah GEN.2.12, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/bdellium/#x1)
- Now the manna was like coriander seed, and the appearance thereof as the appearance of bdellium. (Torah NUM.11.7, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/bdellium/#x2)

### note

A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.

### In the corpora

- [and the gold of that land is good; there is bdellium and the onyx stone.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.45/)
- [Now the manna was like coriander seed, and the appearance thereof as the appearance of bdellium.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.442/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «bdellium» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/bdellium/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.