STRONGS NUMBER H7827


Word Summary
shecheleth: (an ingredient of the holy incense) perhaps onycha
Original Word: שְׁחֶלֶת
Transliteration: shecheleth
Phonetic Spelling: (shekh-ay'-leth)
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Short Definition: (an ingredient of the holy incense) perhaps onycha
Meaning: (an ingredient of the holy incense) perhaps onycha
Strong's Concordance
onycha

Apparently from the same as shachal through some obscure idea, perhaps that of peeling off by concussion of sound; a scale or shell, i.e. The aromatic mussel. -- onycha.

see HEBREW shachal

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H7827. shecheleth

שְׁחֵ֫לֶתnoun feminine an ingredient of the holy incense, + חֶלְבְּנָה נָטָף,‎, Exodus 30:34; ᵑ9 ᵐ5ὄνυξ, onyx (whence AV onycha), i.e. unguis odoratus, the operculum, or closing-flap, of certain molluscs, with pungent odour whenburnt, see Thes1388f. Di Shipley-CookEncy. Bib. ONYCHA; so most; KG JacobZMG xliii (1889), 354 proposes amber.

שׁחן‎ (√ of following; compare Arabic be hot, then inflamed; Aramaic שְׁחַן‎, be warm, heat).