GALBANUM, a sort of gum, or sweet spice, which was an ingredient in the composition Exod. xxx. 34. חלבנה Chelbaah. LXX. Χαλβάνην.of the incense, provided in order to be burnt upon the golden Altar in the Holy. Galbanum is a juice drawn by incision from a plant, which is much like the large kind of fennel, and grows in Syria on mount Amanus. The smell of it is not very agreeable, especially when it is without mixture. The word Galbanum comes from the Hebrew, Chalbanah, which signifies, fat, unctuous, gummy.
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