Lexical Definition

‎בְּדִיל‎ bᵉdîyl (bed-eel') tin ^H:N-M
from ‎בָּדַל‎

[phrase] plummet, tin.

• alloy (because removed by smelting)
• by analogy, tin

1) alloy, tin, dross
1a) of Israel (metaph.)

See Greek: ἄνομος

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎בְּדִיל‎ noun [masculine] alloy, tin, dross (originally that which is separated from precious metal; compare Plin^{Hist. Nat. xxiv. 16, xxxiii. 9}) — ‎׳‎‎בּ‎ absolute Num 31:22 + 4 t.; Plural suffix ‎בְּדִילָ֑יִךְ‎ Isa 1:25 —

1. alloy, Isa 1:25 figurative of evil of Jerusalem, which ‎׳‎‎י‎ will remove (‎הֵסִיר‎; || ‎סִגָ֑יִךְ‎).

2. tin (plumbum album) Num 31:22 (P; + ‎זָהָב‎, ‎כֶּסֶף‎, ‎נְחשֶׁת‎, ‎בַּרְזֶל‎, ‎עֹפָ֑רֶת‎); figurative of Israel Ezek 22:18 (+ ‎נְחשֶׁת‎, ‎בַּרְזֶל‎, ‎עוֺפֶרֶת‎); in simile vEzek 22:20 (+ id. + ‎כֶּסֶף‎); as article of commerce brought to Tyre from Tarshish Ezek 27:12 (+ ‎כֶּסֶף‎, ‎בַּרְזֶל‎, ‎עוֺפֶרֶת‎).

3. plummet, ‎הָאֶבֶן הַבְּדִיל‎ (appositive) Zech 4:10.

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