hebrew #1615 - גִּר gir (chalk) Original Word: גִּר Transliteration: gir Definition: chalk, lime Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Phonetic Spelling: (gheer) ............................................................................................................................
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 גִּר noun [masculine] chalk, lime (perhaps Aramaic loan-word compare Frä
9 ; Aramaic (also Biblical Aramaic)
גִּיר ; Arabic
is loan-word Frä
l.c .) —
מִזְבֵּחַ כְּאַבְנֵי גִר Isaiah 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