Strong's #2457: chel'ah (pronounced khel-aw')
from 2456; properly, disease; hence, rust:--scum.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
chel'âh
1) rust, scum
Part of Speech: noun feminine
Relation: from H2456
Usage:
This word is used 5 times:
Ezekiel 24:6: "city, to the pot whose scum is therein, and whose scum is not gone out of"
Ezekiel 24:6: "to the pot whose is therein, and whose scum is not gone out of it! bring it out"
Ezekiel 24:11: "and that the filthiness of it may be molten it, that the scum of it may be consumed."
Ezekiel 24:12: "She hath wearied herself with lies, and her great scum went not forth out of her: her scum"
Ezekiel 24:12: "scum went not forth out of her: her scum shall be in the fire."