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Boyd’s Bible Dictionary
:
Hardly the fossil vegetable gum of commerce (
Ezek. 1:4,27; 8:2
4
And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and a brightness was about it, and out of the midst thereof as the color of amber, out of the midst of the fire. (Ezekiel 1:4)
27
And I saw as the color of amber, as the appearance of fire round about within it, from the appearance of his loins even upward, and from the appearance of his loins even downward, I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and it had brightness round about. (Ezekiel 1:27)
2
Then I beheld, and lo a likeness as the appearance of fire: from the appearance of his loins even downward, fire; and from his loins even upward, as the appearance of brightness, as the color of amber. (Ezekiel 8:2)
); but rather the yellow composition of
gold
and
silver
known as electrum.
Concise Bible Dictionary
:
This
probably refers, not to
the
mineral now called “amber,” which is highly electric, as its
Greek
and
Latin
names
imply ἥλεκτρον,
electrum
; but to a mixed metal, such as the ancients described as composed of four parts of
gold
and one of
silver
. The
Hebrew
word is
chashmal
, and is associated
with
fire
, and refers simply to its color and brightness (
Ezek. 1:4, 27
4
And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and a brightness was about it, and out of the midst thereof as the color of amber, out of the midst of the fire. (Ezekiel 1:4)
27
And I saw as the color of amber, as the appearance of fire round about within it, from the appearance of his loins even upward, and from the appearance of his loins even downward, I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and it had brightness round about. (Ezekiel 1:27)
;
Ezek. 8:2
2
Then I beheld, and lo a likeness as the appearance of fire: from the appearance of his loins even downward, fire; and from his loins even upward, as the appearance of brightness, as the color of amber. (Ezekiel 8:2)
).