And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.
Bdellium, [Hebrew, habªdolach (H916)]. What substance is meant by this word has been a subject of much discussion. The Sepuagint renders it here and Numbers 11:7 by anthrax (G440) the ruby or the topaz. Bochart, after the Jewish commentators, takes it as signifying pearls; while others maintain that it is the whitish gum or resin distilled from a fragrant tree which grows in Arabia and Babylonia. But such a product would scarcely be of sufficient importance to entitle it to particular notice, and therefore there is greater probability that bdellium means a precious stone, the more especially as it is associated in this enumeration with gold and the onyx stone х hashoham (H7718), supposed by some to be the onyx, so called from its resemblance to the human nail, and it is rendered onyx (Job 28:16); by others, the sardonyx; and by a third class, the beryl].