Amber
חַשְׁמַלStrong’s H2830chashmal (chash-mal)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chashmal is the Hebrew word usually translated “shining substance” and “shining substance towards”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“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 colour of amber, out of the midst of the fire.”
Meaning
- A shining substance, amber or electrum or bronze (uncertain)
How it's translated
- shining substance 1
- a shining substance 1
- shining substance towards 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 3
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Ezekiel 1:27And I saw as the colour 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 8:2Then 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 colour of amber.
Hebrew dictionary
חַשְׁמַל chashmal · amber
a shining substance, amber or electrum or bronze (uncertain)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “amber” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
AM'BER, noun
[In -10, the Arabic is rendered spices. The Arabic word is rendered by Castle, amber a marine fish, a shield made of skins, crocus and fimus.]
All definitions and other forms of “amber”
AM'BER, adjective
Consisting of, or resembling amber
AM'BER, verb transitive
To scent with amber
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.