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Glass

ὑάλινοςStrong’s G5193

hualinos

Appears in 2 verses of the New Testament

In short

Hualinos is the Greek word usually translated “glass”. It appears in 2 verses of the New Testament.

“And before the throne there was a sea of glass like unto crystal: and in the midst of the throne, and round about the throne, were four beasts full of eyes before and behind.”
Revelation 4:6 KJV
Meaning

Usually translated “glass”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated
  • of glass 2
  • glass 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Revelation 2

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Greek dictionary

ὑάλινος hualinos · glass

ὑάλινος, -η, -ον (ὕαλος), of glass, glassy Rev.4:6 15:2.† (AS)

From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “glass” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

GL'ASS, noun

[Latin glastum; glesid, blueness. Greenness is usually named from vegetation or growing, as Latin viridis, from vireo.]

  1. A hard, brittle, transparent, factitious substance, formed by fusing sand with fixed alkalies.
  2. A glass vessel of any kind; as a drinking glass
  3. A mirror; a looking-glass.
  4. A vessel to be filled with sand for measuring time; as an hour-glass.
All definitions and other forms of “glass”
  1. The destined time of man's life.
  2. The quantity of liquor that a glass vessel contains.
  3. A vessel that shows the weight of the air.
  4. A perspective glass; as an optic glass
  5. The time which a glass runs, or in which it is exhausted of sand.
  6. Glasses, in the plural, spectacles.

GL'ASS, adjective

Made of glass; vitreous; as a glass bottle.

    GL'ASS, verb transitive

    To see as in a glass [Not used.]

    1. To case in glass [Little used.]
    2. To cover with glass; to glaze.

    Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

    Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.