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title: חַשְׁמַל — shining · The Tanakh dictionary
description: חַשְׁמַל (2830), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 3 times: shining. BDB 1906: amber. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# חַשְׁמַל

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«חַשְׁמַל» in the Tanakh dictionary: **shining** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 3 times · **Key:** 2830 · **BDB:** חַשְׁמַל

### Glosses

(to (1); of.a.shining.substance (1); shining.substance (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

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

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

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

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**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.).

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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)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «חַשְׁמַל» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2830/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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

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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.

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

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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.

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