Dictionaries :: Chilmad

Easton's Bible Dictionary

Chilmad:

a place or country unknown which, along with Sheba and Asshur, traded with Tyre (Eze 27:23).

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Chilmad:

teaching or learning

International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia

Chilmad:

kil'-mad (kilmadh; Charman): A city or district mentioned after Sheba and Asshur as supplying merchandise to Tyre (Eze 27:23). By changing "m" into "w" (common in Assytoprian-Babylonian) this has been compared with Kalwadha near Bagdad (G. Smith, Transactions of the Society of Biblical Archaeology, I, 61; Delitzsch, Paradies, 206), but the identification seems improbable. Though regarded as the name of a country in the Septuagint and the Vulgate (Jerome's Latin Bible, 390-405 A. D.) (Charman; Chelmad), there is some doubt whether this view of the word is correct. The Targum substitutes Madhai, "Media," and on this account Mez (Stadt Harran, 24) amends to Kol Madhai, "all Media." The absence of the copula "and" has caused others to further modify the vocalization, and by reading kelimmudh instead of Chilmad, the sense "Asshur was as the apprentice of thy trading" (Qimchi, Hitzig, Cornill) is obtained, but is not satisfactory. Probably both text and translation are susceptible of improvement.

Written by T. G. Pinches

Nave's Topical Bible

Chilmad: Merchants Of

Eze 27:23

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Chilmad:

(enclosure) a place or country mentioned in conjunction with Sheba and Asshur (Ezekiel 27:23).