חַשְׁמַל
chashmal · gleaming metal
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H2830 · appears 3 times in the Bible
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chashmal (חַשְׁמַל) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “gleaming metal”.
A rare word, probably bronze or a polished, shining metal. It appears only in Ezekiel, in the vision of the glory.
How to say it
chash·mal
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- Something that glows, perhaps polished bronze.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
Where it appears
- Ezekiel 1:4
And I looked, and look, a storm wind coming from the north, a great cloud and a fire enfolding itself, and brightness around it, and in its midst something like the gleam of shining metal, in the midst of the fire.
- Ezekiel 1:27
And I saw something like the gleam of shining metal, like the appearance of fire enclosing it all around, from the appearance of his loins and upward; and from the appearance of his loins and downward I saw something like the appearance of fire, and there was brightness around him.
- Ezekiel 8:2
And I looked, and look, a likeness like the appearance of fire; from the appearance of his loins and downward, fire; and from his loins and upward, like the appearance of radiance, like the gleam of shining metal.