. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . thepleasant odor yielded by galbanum, onyx andsweet storax. There can be little doubt (so ) that the onux (Gr. = nail, or claw) of theLXX. and of Dioscorides and the onyx of Pliny= the operculum of a Strombus, perhaps Strombuslentiginosus. The Arabs call the mollusk thedevils claw from its claw-shaped and serratedoperculum. The Unguis odoratus, or Blatta Byzan-iina,—for under both these terms apparently thedevil-claw is alluded to in old English writers onMateria Medica—has by some been supposed nolonger to exist. Dr. Lister laments its lo
. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . thepleasant odor yielded by galbanum, onyx andsweet storax. There can be little doubt (so ) that the onux (Gr. = nail, or claw) of theLXX. and of Dioscorides and the onyx of Pliny= the operculum of a Strombus, perhaps Strombuslentiginosus. The Arabs call the mollusk thedevils claw from its claw-shaped and serratedoperculum. The Unguis odoratus, or Blatta Byzan-iina,—for under both these terms apparently thedevil-claw is alluded to in old English writers onMateria Medica—has by some been supposed nolonger to exist. Dr. Lister laments its loss, believ-ing it to have been a good medicine from itsstrong aromatic smell. Bochart believes somekind of bdellium is intended. Duns (Bib. ) supposes it some gum or resin, perhapsbenzoin. Gosse (in Fbn.) suggests that all marinecreatures except fishes with fins and scales were UN- 768 ONY OPH clean, and could not have been touched by the priestsor used in the sanctuary, and therefore concludes itwas probably some B A Slrombut Vianx. B Tht Operculum. Onyx (L. fr. Gr., lit. = nail or claw ; Heb. sho-ham). The A. V. uniformly renders the Hebrewshoham by onyx; the Vulgate too is consistentwith itself, the sardonyx (Job xxviii. 16) beingmerely a sort of onyx ; but the testimonies of an-cient interpreters generally are diverse and ambigu-ous. There is nothing in the contexts of the sev-eral passages (Gen. ii. 12 ; Ex. xxv. 7, xxviii. 9, 20,xxxv. 9, 27, xxxix. 6, 18; 1 Chr. xxix. 2; Jobxxviii. 16 ; Ez. xxviii. 13) where the Hebrew termoccurs to help us to determine its signification. Jo-sephus expressly states that the shoulder-stones ofthe high-priest were formed of two large sardonyxes,an onyx being, in his description, the second stonein the fourth row of the breastplate. Some (Bel-lermann, Winer, Rosenmiiller) believe the berylis intended. Other interpretations of shoham havebeen proposed, but all are mere conjectures. thinks the balance of
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