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    Bdellium /ˈdɛliəm/ (also bdellion or false myrrh) is a semi-transparent oleo-gum resin extracted from Commiphora wightii plants, and from Commiphora africana...
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    therefore known as scented myrrh, sweet myrrh, perfumed myrrh or perfumed bdellium. Sometimes the oleo-gum-resin of Commiphora holtziana (often treated as...
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    ingredients. These myrrh-like resins are known as bdellium (including guggul and African bdellium), balsam (balm of Gilead or Mecca balsam) and opopanax...
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    Onycha (section Bdellium)
    finger-nails in shape. Dioscorides said that bdellium was "the tear of an Arabian tree." He describes bdellium as resembling a fingernail (which is the Greek...
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    is described as encircling "the entire land of Havilah where is gold; bdellium and onyx stone." Unlike the Tigris and the Euphrates, the Pishon has never...
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    Commiphora wightii, with common names Indian bdellium-tree, gugal, guggal, guggul, gugul, or mukul myrrh tree, is a flowering plant in the family Burseraceae...
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  • Commiphora africana, commonly called African myrrh, is a small deciduous tree belonging to the Burseraceae, a family akin to the Anacardiaceae, occurring...
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  • The Ohio lamprey (Ichthyomyzon bdellium) is a lamprey found in the Ohio River drainage basin in the United States and is a parasitic species of lampreys...
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    size but white in color. Numbers describes it as having the appearance of bdellium, adding that the Israelites ground it and pounded it into cakes, which...
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    plate, and a little wine. On the other hand there are exported costus, bdellium, lycium, nard, turquoise, lapis lazuli, Seric skins, cotton cloth, silk...
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    glass, silver and gold plate, and a little wine" in exchange for "costus, bdellium, lycium, nard, turquoise, lapis lazuli, Seric skins, cotton cloth, silk...
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    the Sarat range, which topographically separate the Najd from Tehamah. Bdellium plants are also abundant in the Hejaz. Saudi Arabia, and in particular...
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    Havilah, where there is gold; And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone. Research by archaeologists Juris Zarins of Missouri...
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  • from syllables from the words "opoponax, bdellium, and aristolochia." Opoponax is a variety of myrrh; bdellium is Commiphora wightii, which produces a...
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    Ma. akil aloe wood, A. agallocha. Ka. agil the balsam tree which yields bdellium, Amyris agallocha; the dark species of Agallochum; fragrance. Tu. agilů...
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    alhandalæ and used as a laxative. They were usually composed of colocynth, bdellium, and gum tragacanth. Alhandal is derived from Arabic: الْحَنْظَل, romanized: al-Ḥanẓal...
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    ) Engl. (syn. Heudelotia africana), sometimes identified with ancient bdellium. Used indirectly by the San bushmen to poison their arrow tips for hunting...
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    (Abies balsamea) Balsam of Peru Balsam of Tolu Balsam Specific Bisabol Bdellium Benzoin resin Bukhoor Cabreuva balsam (Myrocarpus frondosus, Myrocarpus...
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    brook lamprey) Petromyzon marinus Linnaeus 1758 (Sea lamprey) Ichthyomyzon bdellium (Jordan 1885) (Ohio lamprey) Ichthyomyzon castaneus Girard 1858 (Chestnut...
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  • juniper berries (?) cassia cinnamon (cardamom may substitute) saffron bdellium spikenard cassia cinnamon mastic mint henna mimosa Ketoret Riha (Mandaeism)...
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    much wheat, wine, rice and dates but along the coast there is nothing but Bdellium". The exact site of the city in Balochistan, Pakistan is still unknown...
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  • */mn/, */pn/, */ps/, */pt/, */tm/, and */θm/, which have become /d/ (bdellium), /θ/ (phthisis), /n/ (gnome), /r/ (rhythm), /n/ (cnidoblast), /z/ (xylophone)...
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    Havilah, where there is gold; and the gold of that land is good; there is bdellium and the onyx stone. And the name of the second river is Gihon; the same...
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  • glass, silver and gold plate, and a little wine" in exchange for "costus, bdellium, lycium, nard, turquoise, lapis lazuli, Seric skins, cotton cloth, silk...
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    There are exported from these places spikenard, costus [Saussurea costus], bdellium, ivory, agate and carnelian, lycium, cotton cloth of all kinds, silk cloth...
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    Southern Arabia and India involved with trade in frankincense, myrrh, cassia, bdellium and a range of gum resins termed duaka and kankamon and mok rotu. Among...
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    Havilah, where there is gold; and the gold of that land is good; there is bdellium and the onyx stone. And the name of the second river is Gihon; the same...
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    saffron, and cloves, while perfumes included the by-products of sandalwood, bdellium, musk, civet and rose. These items were sold either in bulk or hawked on...
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    There are currently six recognized species in this genus: Ichthyomyzon bdellium (D. S. Jordan, 1885) (Ohio lamprey) Ichthyomyzon castaneus Girard, 1858...
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    and markings which are said to resemble a fingernail), Styrax benzoin, bdellium, or even cloves. Galbanum is generally considered to be Ferula galbaniflua...
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