STRONGS G5474:
χαλκολίβανον (so
Suidas (but see Gaisf. edition under the word)),
χαλκολιβανου,
τό, more correctly
χαλκολιβανος,
χαλκολιβανου,
ἡ (according to the reading as it ought to be restored ((but see the editions)) in
Revelation 1:15 ὡς ἐν καμίνῳ πεπυρωμενη; cf. Düsterdieck's critical note (see
Buttmann, 80 (69) note)), a word of doubtful meaning found only in
Revelation 1:15, and
Revelation 2:18, chalcolibanus,
Vulg. aurichalcum or orichalcum (so manuscript Arafat. (al. aeric.); Luther Messing (
R. V. burnished brass)); according to the testimony of an ancient Greek (Ansonius) in Salmasius (Exercitt. ad Solin., p. 810 a.:
ὁ λίβανος ἔχει τρία εἴδη δένδρων,
καί ὁ μέν ἄρρην ὀνομάζεται χαλκολιβανος,
ἡλιοειδής καί πυρρός ἤγουν ξανθός), a certain kind of (yellow)
frankincense; but both the sense of the passages in Rev and a comparison of
Daniel 10:6 and
Ezekiel 1:7, which seem to have been in the writer's thought, compel us to understand
some metal, like gold if not more precious (cf. Hebrew
חַשְׁמָל, a metal composed of gold and silver, Sept
ἤλεκτρον,
Vulg.electrum,
Ezekiel 1:4,
27;
Ezekiel 8:2); this interpretation is confirmed by the gloss of
Suidas:
εἶδος ἠλέκτρου τιμιώτερον χρυσοῦ,
ἐστι δέ τό ἤλεκτρον ἀλλοτυπον χρυσίον μεμιγμένον ὕελω καί λιθεία. The word is compounded, no doubt, of
χαλκός and
λίβανος, not of
χαλκός and
לָבָן, 'white.' Cf.
Winer's RWB, under the word Metalle; Wetzel in the Zeitschr. f. d. luth. Theol. for 1869, p. 92ff; cf. Ewald, Johann. Schriften, ii., p. 117f; (Lee in the 'Speaker's Commentary' at the passage).
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