* I beheld.
  1:4,26,27  Da 7:9,10  Re 1:14,15 
 * amber.
   Amber is a hard, inflammable, bituminous substance, of a
   beautiful yellow colour, very transparent, and susceptible of
   an exquisite polish.  When rubbed it is highly endowed with
   electricity; a name which the moderns have formed from its
   Greek name [elektron.]  But, as amber becomes dim as soon as
   it feels the fire, and is speedily consumed, it is probable
   that the original {chashmal,} which Bochart derives from the
   Chaldee {nechash,} copper, and {melala,} gold, was a mixed
   metal, similar to that which the Greeks called [elektron,]
   electrum, as the LXX. and Vulgate render, from its resemblance
   to amber in colour.