Glass
זְכוּכִיתStrong’s H2137zekhukhit (ze-khu-khit)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Zekhukhit is the Hebrew word usually translated “glass”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“The gold and the crystal cannot equal it: and the exchange of it shall not be for jewels of fine gold.”
Meaning
- Glass, crystal, fine glass
How it's translated
- and glass 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 1
1 book in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
זְכוּכִית zekhukhit · glass
glass, crystal, fine glass
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
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.]
- A hard, brittle, transparent, factitious substance, formed by fusing sand with fixed alkalies.
- A glass vessel of any kind; as a drinking glass
- A mirror; a looking-glass.
- A vessel to be filled with sand for measuring time; as an hour-glass.
All definitions and other forms of “glass”
- The destined time of man's life.
- The quantity of liquor that a glass vessel contains.
- A vessel that shows the weight of the air.
- A perspective glass; as an optic glass
- The time which a glass runs, or in which it is exhausted of sand.
- 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.]
- To case in glass [Little used.]
- 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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.