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Strong Hebrew #1615 - גִּר gir (chalk)


Original Word:גִּר
Transliteration:gir
Definition:chalk, lime
Part of Speech:Noun Masculine
Phonetic Spelling:(gheer)
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

chalkstone

Perhaps from kuwr; lime (from being burned in a kiln) -- chalk(-stone).

see HEBREW kuwr


Englishman's Concordance

1) chalk, lime
Part of Speech: noun masculine
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: perhaps from H3564
Same Word by TWOT Number: 347a

Brown-Driver-Briggs

גִּרnoun [masculine]chalk, lime (perhaps Aramaic loan-word compare Frä9; Aramaic (also Biblical Aramaic) גִּיר; Arabic is loan-word Fräl.c.) — מִזְבֵּחַ כְּאַבְנֵי גִרIsaiah 27:9.

Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Hebrew: 1615. גִּר (gir) — 1 Occurrence

Isaiah 27:9
HEB:מִזְבֵּ֗חַ כְּאַבְנֵי־ גִר֙ מְנֻפָּצ֔וֹת לֹֽא־
NAS: like pulverized chalk stones;
KJV: of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder,
INT: the altar stones chalk pulverized will not