Bdellium

in Scripture, is in He brew bedholachh, rendered in the Sep: tuagint of Gen. ii: 12, anthrax (lit erally, burning coal). Some moderr writers, following the Septuagint translation, make it a mineral, as are the gold’ and the onyx stone, with which it is a ociated in Gen. ii: 12 Others think that it was the gum described below; while the Rabbins, Bochart, and Gesenius consider that it was a pearl, or pearls.