Onycha.

One of the ingredients of the holy 'perfume' which was burnt as incense. Exodus 30:34. The Hebrew is shecheleth; onycha is from the Greek onux, 'nail or claw,' and it is supposed to refer to the operculum or claw of one or more species of the Strombus, a shell fish: the claw gave a sweet odour when burnt.


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