bdellium

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Scrabble points
13
Words With Friends
18
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/ˈdɛ.li.əm/
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/ˈdɛ.li.əm/ · /b(ə)ˈdɛli.əm/

Definition of bdellium

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)An aromatic gum-like balsam extracted from one of several species of tree in the genus Commiphora.
    “And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads. The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold; And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.”

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Etymology

Borrowed from Latin bdellium, from Ancient Greek βδέλλιον (bdéllion), itself perhaps from Hebrew בְּדֹלַח (bdólakh), cognate with Akkadian 𒁉𒁺𒌨𒄷 (bidurḫu) or from Sanskrit भिदुर (bhidura, “something brittle, fragile, easily split or broken”).

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