Bdellium
בְּדֹ֫לַחStrong’s H0916bedolach (be-do-lach)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Bedolach is the Hebrew word usually translated “bdellium”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.”
Meaning
- Bdellium (ie gum resin)
How it's translated
- bdellium 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 1
- Numbers 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
בְּדֹ֫לַח bedolach · bdellium
bdellium (ie gum resin)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “bdellium” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BDEL'LIUM, noun
[ Bochard and Parkhurst translate it, pearl. But it is doubtful whether the bdellium of the scriptures is that now used.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.