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TIN

A metal that, when mixed with copper in a ratio of 10 percent tin to 90 percent copper, produces a harder alloy, bronze. The existence of bronze led to the creation of stronger weapons and tools, as well as coins and mirrors.

Tin ore occurs in rock veins or in the form of gravel or sand in alluvium. Early smelting was carried out using pit fires. The ore was thrown onto the fire and the metal was gathered from the sand and ashes. Advances in smelting eventually created blocks of tin from furnaces that could direct the flow of the metal (Ezek. 22:20; Diodorus Siculus Hist. 5.21-22).

The Phoenicians imported tin to the Near East by ship from Tarshish (Ezek. 27:12). The Romans used tin in the production of pewter plates, brooches, and flagons.

Bibliography. E. S. Hedges, Tin in Social and Economic History (New York, 1964).

James V. Smith






Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000)

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