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Comments: Amber (resinite) - raw amber from the Baltics. (left: 2.7 centimeters across; right: 3.1 centimeters across).
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Comments: Archaeological Museum in Udine (Italy). Ancient Roman rings. Picture by Giovanni Dall'Orto, May 29 2015.
From Easton: Amber, (Ezekiel 1:4, Ezekiel 1:27; Ezekiel 8:2. Heb., hashmal, rendered by the LXX. elektron, and by the Vulgate electrum), a metal compounded of silver and gold. Some translate the word by "polished brass," others "fine brass," as in Revelation 1:15; Revelation 2:18. It was probably the mixture now called electrum. The word has no connection, however, with what is now called amber, which is a gummy substance, reckoned as belonging to the mineral kingdom though of vegetable origin, a fossil resin.
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