Plaster
גִּירStrong’s H1528gir
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Gir is the Aramaic word usually translated “plaster the”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“In the same hour came forth fingers of a man’s hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaister of the wall of the king’s palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.”
Meaning
- Chalk, plaster
How it's translated
- plaster the 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 1
1 book in all.
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Aramaic dictionary
גִּיר gir · plaster
chalk, plaster Aramaic of gir (גִּר "chalk" H1615)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “plaster” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
PL'ASTER, noun
[Latin emplastrum; Gr. to daub or smear, properly to lay or spread on; to daub or to fashion, mold or shape.]
- A composition of lime, water and sand, well mixed into a kind of paste and used for coating walls and partitions of houses.
- In pharmacy, an external application of a harder consistence than an ointment, to be spread, according to different circumstances, either on linen or leather.
All definitions and other forms of “plaster”
PL'ASTER, verb transitive
To overlay with plaster as the partitions of a house, walls, etc.
- To cover with plaster as a wound.
- In popular language, to smooth over; to cover or conceal defects or irregularities.
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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.