The Electric Company

I was looking over our utility bills to prepare for our taxes (even half a planet away, I can't avoid April 15) and was thinking of the word "electricity," which in Hebrew is Cheshmal (hard H in the beginning, like Chanukkah). I was told in Hebrew class that the word Cheshmal only occurs once in the Bible - it is the radiant or "flashing-fire" light described in Ezekiel 1:4.

So, when modern Hebrew was invented, they needed a word for electricity and since no one knew what this radiant lightning-like light was, they decided to use the word from Ezekiel to mean electricity. Cool, huh?!