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A HEBRAIST once told me that he thought that Og's iron bed, mentioned in Deuteronomy iii., 11, was a sarcophagus of basalt. The Hebrew word is “barzel,” which is evidently the same as the Ethiopic “basal,” iron, which Stormonth's dictionary gives as the derivation of “basalt.” O. FISHER
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FISHER, O. King Og's Bed. Nature 65, 392 (1902). https://doi.org/10.1038/065392f0
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