Word

גִּר

gir · H1615 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. chalk

    A white soft earthy limestone, formed from the skeletal remains of sea creatures

    Examples

    Isaiah 27:9 Therefore through this Jacob’s wrongdoing will be forgiven; And this will be the full price of the pardoning of his sin: When he makes all the altar stones like pulverized chalk stones; When Asherim and incense altars will not stand.

How it’s used In 1 role

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In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

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Semantic domains 1 entry
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The noun denotes chalk or pulverized limestone, used of the altar stones Jacob's descendants are told to crush like chalk as a sign of atonement.
Word family 2 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1615. gir גִּר noun [masculine] chalk, lime (perhaps Aramaic loan-word compare Frä9;…
H1615. gir
גִּר noun [masculine] chalk, lime (perhaps Aramaic loan-word compare Frä9; Aramaic (also Biblical Aramaic) גִּיר ; Arabic is loan-word Fräl.c.) — גִר כְּאַבְנֵי מִזְבֵּחַ Isa 27:9.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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