Crystal
גָּבִישׁStrong’s H1378gavish (ga-vish)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Gavish is the Hebrew word usually translated “crystal”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price of wisdom is above rubies.”
Meaning
- Crystal
How it's translated
- and crystal 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
גָּבִישׁ gavish · crystal
crystal
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “crystal” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CRYSTAL, noun
[Latin Gr., frost.]
- In chemistry and mineralogy, an inorganic body, which, by the operation of affinity, has assumed the form of a regular solid, terminated by a certain number of plane and smooth surfaces.
- A factitious body, cast in glass houses, called crystal glass; a species of glass, more perfect in its composition and manufacture, than common glass.
- A substance of any kind having the form of a crystal
- The glass of a watch-case.
All definitions and other forms of “crystal”
CRYSTAL, adjective
Consisting of crystal or like crystal; clear; transparent; lucid; pellucid.
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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.