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This piece of matter, thus denominated zahab by Adam, being quite different from any he had seen before, nobody, I think, will deny to be a distinct species, and to have its peculiar essence: and that the name zahab is the mark of the species, and a name belonging to all things partaking in that essence.
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If these must, then all the other properties, which any further trials shall discover in this matter, ought by the same reason to make a part of the ingredients of the complex idea which the name zahab stands for, and so be the essence of the species marked by that name.
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These perhaps, at first, are all the qualities he takes notice of in it; and abstracting this complex idea, consisting of a substance having that peculiar bright yellowness, and a weight very great in proportion to its bulk, he gives the name zahab, to denominate and mark all substances that have these sensible qualities in them.
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But here it is plain the essence Adam made the name zahab stand for was nothing but a body hard, shining, yellow, and very heavy.
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Are not they also, by the same reason that any of the others were, to be put into the complex idea signified by the name zahab?
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This piece of matter, thus denominated zahab by Adam, being quite different from any he had seen before, nobody, I think, will deny to be a distinct species, and to have its peculiar essence: and that the name zahab is the mark of the species, and a name belonging to all things partaking in that essence.
God, Aids & Circumcision Hill, George 2005
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If these must, then all the other properties, which any further trials shall discover in this matter, ought by the same reason to make a part of the ingredients of the complex idea which the name zahab stands for, and so be the essence of the species marked by that name.
God, Aids & Circumcision Hill, George 2005
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Is not now dudility to be added to his former idea, and jnade part of the eflence of the fpecies that name zahab (lands for?
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Hadar: et nomen civitatis ejus Pahu: nomen autem uxoris ejus Mehetabel filia Matred filiae Me -- zahab.
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2 1509-1564 1996
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Ayman Zawahiri called expressly and repetitively on the public to sell their US dollars and buy gold instead (Be'u al dullar washtaru al zahab).
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