Biblical Hebrew

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hebrew #2141 - זָכַךְ zakak (to be bright)


Original Word:זָכַךְ
Transliteration: zakak
Definition:to be bright, clean or pure
Part of Speech:Verb
Phonetic Spelling:(zaw-kak')
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

be make clean, be purer

A primitive root (compare zakah); to be transparent or clean (phys. Or morally) -- be (make) clean, be pure(-r).

see HEBREW zakah


Englishman's Concordance

1) to be pure, be bright, be clean, be bright, clean
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to be bright, be shining
1a2) to be clean, be pure
1b) (Hiphil) to cleanse, make cleanse, make clean
Part of Speech: verb
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: a primitive root [compare H2135]
Same Word by TWOT Number: 550

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[זָכַךְ] verbbe bright, clean, pure (kindred with foregoing. Only Lamentations, Job) —

QalPerfect only 3 masculine plural זַכּ֫וּ; —

1be right, shining, figurative of splendour of nobles נְזִירִים מִשֶּׁלֶג׳זLamentations 4:7 ("" מֵחָלָב צַחוּ).

2be clean, pure in God's sight, of heavens Job 15:15, of stars Job 25:5 ("" יַאֲהִיל of moon; compare also יִזְכֶּהJob 15:14; Job 25:4).

Hiph`ilcleanse, only Perfect1singular וַהֲזִכּוֺתִי בְּבֹר כַּמָּֽי׃Job 9:30, figurative of making morally spotless ("" הִתְרָחַצְתִּי).


Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Hebrew: 2141. זָכַך (zakak) — 4 Occurrences

Job 9:30
HEB:שָׁ֑לֶג ק) וַ֝הֲזִכּ֗וֹתִי בְּבֹ֣ר כַּפָּֽי׃
NAS: myself with snow And cleanse my hands
KJV: and make my hands never so clean;
INT: should wash waste and cleanse lye my hands

Job 15:15
HEB:וְ֝שָׁמַ֗יִם לֹא־ זַכּ֥וּ בְעֵינָֽיו׃
NAS: And the heavens are not pure in His sight;
KJV: yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.
INT: and the heavens no pure his sight

Job 25:5
HEB:וְ֝כוֹכָבִ֗ים לֹא־ זַכּ֥וּ בְעֵינָֽיו׃
NAS: And the stars are not pure in His sight,
KJV: not; yea, the stars are not pure in his sight.
INT: and the stars no pure his sight

Lamentations 4:7
HEB: זַכּ֤וּ נְזִירֶ֙יהָ֙ מִשֶּׁ֔לֶג
NAS: Her consecrated ones were purer than
KJV: Her Nazarites were purer than snow,
INT:were purer her consecrated snow

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