פּוּךְ
pûwk · H6320 · Hebrew · 4 occurrences
Meanings
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Kohl
A black powder used as eye paint
Examples2 Kings 9:30 When Jehu came to Jezreel, Jezebel heard about it, and she put makeup on her eyes and adorned her head, and looked down through the window.
Jeremiah 4:30 And you, desolate one, what will you do? Although you dress in scarlet, Although you adorn yourself with jewelry of gold, Although you enlarge your eyes with makeup, In vain you make yourself beautiful. Your lovers despise you; They seek your life.
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antimony
A brittle silvery-white semimetal; regarded as valuable and beautiful
Examples1 Chronicles 29:2 “Now with all my ability I have provided for the house of my God the gold for the things of gold, the silver for the things of silver, the bronze for the things of bronze, the iron for the things of iron, wood for the things of wood, onyx stones and inlaid stones, stones of antimony and stones of various colors, and all kinds of precious stones and alabaster in abundance.
Isaiah 54:11 “Afflicted one, storm-tossed, and not comforted, Behold, I will set your stones in antimony, And I will lay your foundations with sapphires.
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
3 occurrences in 1 groups
- בin/on/with 6
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- אֶבֶןstone 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Semantic domains 2 entries
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- פּוּךְ denotes paint or eye-cosmetic, as of Jezebel putting makeup on her eyes in 2 Kings 9:30 and the woman who enlarges her eyes with makeup in Jeremiah 4:30.
- Metals001002005008
- The word also denotes antimony, a mineral substance used in fine construction, as of the stones of antimony provided for the temple in 1 Chronicles 29:2 and the antimony set in the foundations of Isaiah 54:11.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6320. puk מּוּךְ noun [masculine] antimony, stibium (Late Hebrew = Biblical Hebrew;…
מּוּךְ noun [masculine] antimony, stibium (Late Hebrew = Biblical Hebrew; compare possibly Arabic open, separate; Syriac pulverize; but מּוּךְ perhaps foreign word); — black mineral powder, for increasing brilliance of eyes by darkening edges of lids; עֵינֶוהָ בֵּמּ ׳וַתָּשֶׂם 2Ki 9:30, וגו ׳תִּקְרְעִי Jer 4:30; (on practice in Arabic see WeGGN, 1893, 443; in Egypt, LaneMod.Egypt.ed. 5, i. 45 f.); figurative Isa 54:11 of dark cement setting off precious stones (but WeDLZ, Aug. 2, 1890 CheHpt and others read נֹפֶךְ q. v.); פ ׳אַבְנֵי 1Ch 29:2 are perhaps stones of brilliant hue of antimony. — compare proper name הַמּוּךְ קֶרֶן, and כָּחַל.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
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
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