Easton's Bible Dictionary Hebrews bedil (Numbers 31:22; Ezek. 22:18, 20), a metal well known in ancient times. It is the general opinion that the Phoenicians of Tyre and Sidon obtained their supplies of tin from the British Isles. In Ezek. 27:12 it is said to have been brought from Tarshish, which was probably a commercial emporium supplied with commodities from other places. In Isaiah 1:25 the word so rendered is generally understood of lead, the alloy with which the silver had become mixed (ver. 22). The fire of the Babylonish Captivity would be the means of purging out the idolatrous alloy that had corrupted the people. Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) An elementary substance found as an oxide in the mineral cassiterite, and reduced as a soft white crystalline metal, malleable at ordinary temperatures, but brittle when heated. It is not easily oxidized in the air, and is used chiefly to coat iron to protect it from rusting, in the form of tin foil with mercury to form the reflective surface of mirrors, and in solder, bronze, speculum metal, and other alloys. Its compounds are designated as stannous, or stannic. Symbol Sn (Stannum). Atomic weight 117.4. 2. (n.) Thin plates of iron covered with tin; tin plate. 3. (n.) Money. 4. (v. t.) To cover with tin or tinned iron, or to overlay with tin foil. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia TIN tin (bedhil): Tin is mentioned with brass, iron and lead in Numbers 31:22 Ezekiel 22:18, 20. Ezekiel mentions tin along with silver, iron and lead as being imported into Tyre from Tarshish (see METALS). The tin must have been brought in the form of ore and smelted in Syria. The writer has some slag dug from a deposit near Beirut which yielded nearly pure tin. It was probably the site of an ancient smelter's shop. Alfred Ely Day

Multi-Version Concordance Tin (6 Occurrences) Numbers 31:22 however the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead, (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV) Isaiah 1:25 and I will turn my hand on you, thoroughly purge away your dross, and will take away all your tin. (WEB KJV ASV WBS YLT) Ezekiel 22:18 Son of man, the house of Israel is become dross to me: all of them are brass and tin and iron and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are the dross of silver. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV) Ezekiel 22:20 As they gather silver and brass and iron and lead and tin into the midst of the furnace, to blow the fire on it, to melt it; so will I gather you in my anger and in my wrath, and I will lay you there, and melt you. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV) Ezekiel 27:12 Tarshish was your merchant by reason of the multitude of all kinds of riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded for your wares. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV) Zechariah 4:10 For who trampled on the day of small things, They have rejoiced, And seen the tin weight in the hand of Zerubbabel, These seven 'are' the eyes of Jehovah, They are going to and fro in all the land.' (YLT)