Properly "naphtha," as it is both in the LXX. and the Vulgate, as well as in the Peshito-Syriac. Pliny mentions naphtha as a product of Babylonia, similar in appearance to liquid bitumen, and having a remarkable affinity to fire.
·vt To rub with rosin, as musicians rub the bow of a violin. II. Rosin ·noun The hard, amber-colore...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
Found only in Authorized Version, margin, Ezek. 27:17, Heb. tsori, uniformly rendered elsewhere "bal...
Easton's Bible Dictionary