Plaster
גִּירStrong’s H1615gir
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Gir is the Hebrew word usually translated “chalk”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images shall not stand up.”
Meaning
- Chalk, plaster
How it's translated
- chalk 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew 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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.