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ONYCHA (shĕçleth, Exo_30:34).—One of the ingredients of the sacred composition which gave a sweet smell when burned (cf. Sir_24:15, where apparently the same substance is referred to as onyx). Onycha was obtained from the claw-like [hence the name from Gr. onyx ‘nail’] operculum of some mollusc of the genus strombus. A similar product is still used in Upper Egypt for fumigations.
E. W. G. Masterman.