Hashmal

Hashmal, חַשְׁמַל Ḥašmal; rendered amber by the Authorized Version)[1] are angelic entities in Judaism.

[2] The word hashmal appears in the Hebrew Bible in Ezekiel 1:4-5: And I looked, and, behold, a stormy wind came out of the north, a great cloud, with a fire flashing up, so that a brightness was round about it; and out of the midst thereof as the colour of electrum, out of the midst of the fire.

[3]Hashmallim occupy the fourth rank of ten in Maimonides' exposition of the Jewish angelic hierarchy.

[4] The Septuagint translates hashmal to ηλεκτρον (elektron), which means "amber" in English.

Jewish poet Judah Leib Gordon coined the modern Hebrew word, in his 1878 collection Gabashta.