TIN

בדיל , Num. xxx i, 22; Isa. i, 25; Ezek. xxii, 18, 20; xxvii, 12; a well-known coarse metal, harder than lead. Mr. Park hurst observes, that Moses, in Num. xxx i, 22, enumerates all the six species of metals. The Lord, by the Prophet Isaiah, having compared the Jewish people to silver, declares, “I will turn my hand upon thee, and purge away thy dro , and remove all בדיליך , thy particles of tin :” where Aquila, Symmachus, and Theodotion have κασσίτερον σου, and the Vulgate stannum tuum , “thy tin;” but the LXX. ἀνόμους, wicked ones . This denunciation, by a comparison of the preceding and following context, appears to signify that God would, by a proce of judgment, purify those among the Jews who were capable of purification, as well as destroy the reprobate and incorrigible, Jer. vi, 29, 30; ix, 7; Mal. iii, 3; Ezek. xii, 18, 20. In Ezek. xxvii, 12, Tarshish is mentioned as furnishing כדיל ; and Bochart proves from the testimonies of Diodorus, Pliny, and Stephanus, that Tarte us in Spain, which he supposes the ancient Tarshish, anciently furnished tin. As Cornwall in very ancient times was resorted to for this metal, and probably first by the Phenic i ans, some have thought that peninsula to be the Tarshish of the Scriptures; a subject which, however, from the vague use of the word, is involved in much uncertainty. See Tarshish .