Onycha

Exodus 30:34
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One of the ingredients of the holy “perfume” which was burnt as incense (Ex. 30:3434And the Lord said unto Moses, Take unto thee sweet spices, stacte, and onycha, and galbanum; these sweet spices with pure frankincense: of each shall there be a like weight: (Exodus 30:34)). The Hebrew is shecheleth; onycha is from the Greek ὄνυξ, “nail or claw,” and it is supposed to refer to the operculum or claw of one or more species of the Strombus, a shell fish: the claw gave a sweet odor when burnt.