A word whose meaning is genuinely LOST. It occurs three times in the Bible, all in Ezekiel (1:4, 1:27, 8:2), of the gleam at the heart of the fire. The Septuagint guessed elektron (amber, or the pale gold-silver alloy electrum), the Vulgate followed with electrum, and that is where the KJV's 'amber' comes from; ASV and NIV retreat to 'glowing metal.' This translation leaves it untranslated, as it does Sheol and El Shaddai. ⚠ When Hebrew was revived as a spoken language chashmal was drafted to mean ELECTRICITY — taken straight from the Greek guess at this verse. → first discussed at Ezekiel 1:4