To refine
זָקַקStrong’s H2212zaqaq (za-qaq)
Appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Zaqaq is the Hebrew word usually translated “purified”, “people refine” and “refine”. It appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament.
“And for the altar of incense refined gold by weight; and gold for the pattern of the chariot of the cherubims, that spread out their wings, and covered the ark of the covenant of the LORD.”
Meaning
- To purify, distil, strain, refine(Qal) · (Piel) to purge, refine · (Pual) to refine, purify
How it's translated
- purified 3
- people refine 1
- they refine 1
- refined 1
- and he will refine 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Chronicles 2
- Job 2
- Psalms 1
- Isaiah 1
- Malachi 1
5 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Chronicles 29:4Even three thousand talents of gold, of the gold of Ophir, and seven thousand talents of refined silver, to overlay the walls of the houses withal:
- Job 28:1Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold where they fine it.
- Job 36:27For he maketh small the drops of water: they pour down rain according to the vapour thereof:
- Psalms 12:6The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.
- Isaiah 25:6And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.
- Malachi 3:3And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the LORD an offering in righteousness.
Hebrew dictionary
זָקַק zaqaq · to refine
1) to purify, distil, strain, refine 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to purify, distil, strain 1a2) to refine 1b) (Piel) to purge, refine 1c) (Pual) to refine, purify
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “refine” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
REFI'NE, verb transitive
- To purify; in a general sense; applied to liquors, to depurate; to defecate; to clarify; to separate, as liquor, from all extraneous matter.
- Applied to metals, to separate the metallic substance from all other matter, whether another metal or alloy, or any earthy substance; in short, to detach the pure metal from all extraneous matter.“I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined” Zechariah 13:9
- To purify, as manners, from what is gross, clownish or vulgar; to polish; to make elegant.
- To purify, as language, by removing vulgar words and barbarisms.
All definitions and other forms of “refine”
- To purify, as taste; to give a nice and delicate perception of beauty and propriety in literature and the arts.
- To purify, as the mind or moral principles; to give or implant in the mind a nice perception of truth, justice and propriety in commerce and social intercourse.
REFI'NE, verb intransitive
- To improve in accuracy, delicacy, or in any thing that constitutes excellence.
- to become pure; to be cleared of feculent matter.
- To affect nicety.
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.