. A dictionary of the Bible .. . - of remark that the Arabs nearCape Mussendum apply the skin of these animalsfor a similar purpose (Col. H. Smith, /. c). TheHalicore labernaculi is found in the Red Sea, and the use of (be Arabic wonis I LT^-- ^ (duchash) and. Jlalxeeie TalemaaUi, wth enlarged drawing of the head. was observed by Ruppell {Mas. Seiick. i. 113,t. 6), who gave the animal the ahoxc name, on thecoral banks of the Abyssinian coast. Or perhapstachash may denote a seal, the skin of which animalwould suit all the demands of the Scriptural allu-sions. Pliny (//. N. ii. 65) says seal-ski
. A dictionary of the Bible .. . - of remark that the Arabs nearCape Mussendum apply the skin of these animalsfor a similar purpose (Col. H. Smith, /. c). TheHalicore labernaculi is found in the Red Sea, and the use of (be Arabic wonis I LT^-- ^ (duchash) and. Jlalxeeie TalemaaUi, wth enlarged drawing of the head. was observed by Ruppell {Mas. Seiick. i. 113,t. 6), who gave the animal the ahoxc name, on thecoral banks of the Abyssinian coast. Or perhapstachash may denote a seal, the skin of which animalwould suit all the demands of the Scriptural allu-sions. Pliny (//. N. ii. 65) says seal-skins wereused as coverings for tents ; but it is quite impos-sible to come to any satisflictory conclusion in anattempt to identify the animal denoted by theHebrew word. BALM (ny, tzori: nV, tzeri: p7)rlvn : re-sina) occurs in Gen. xxxvii. 25 as one of the sub-stances which the Ishmaelites were bringing fromGilead to take into Egypt; in Gen. xliii. 11, as oneof the presents which .lacob sent to Joseph ; in 22, xlvi. 11, Ii. 8 where it appears that thebalm of Gilead had a medicinal value ; in 17 (margin, rosin) as an article of com-merce imported by .ludah into Tyre. Many attempts have been made to identify the . ^rv. (tucJiash), as ap
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