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-- "Bdellium" apparently was a precious gum of antiquity.
Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1 1892-1972 1942
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Mr. ROBERTSON: Bdellium, it's a - it's a gum-like tree resin.
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Bdellium is the carbuncle, but that it may also be crystal.
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We are very much puzzled to know what this Bdellium is which is found near the shores of the Pison, a river of the terrestrial paradise which turns into the country of the Havilah, where there is gold.
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It is a pity that things have changed so much for Mingrelia; that beautiful country, so famous for the loves of Medea and Jason, now produces gold and Bdellium no more than bulls which vomit fire and flame, and dragons which guard the fleece.
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Bdellium is an odoriferous exudation from a tree which is perhaps the Borassus flabelliformis, Lin., of Arabia Felix.
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It also furnishes a gum resin analogous to Elemi, and supposed to yield Indian Bdellium.
Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture William Saunders 1861
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_B. mukul_ yields a resin of this name, and is considered identical with the Bdellium of Dioscorides and of the Scriptures.
Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture William Saunders 1861
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Bdellium, if it is benzoin, amomum, and cardamomum were perhaps rather imported through Media than the actual produce of the country, which is too cold in the winter to grow any good spices.
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