To polish
מָרַקStrong’s H4838maraq (ma-raq)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Maraq is the Hebrew word usually translated “it will be scoured”, “polished” and “polish”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“But the earthen vessel wherein it is sodden shall be broken: and if it be sodden in a brasen pot, it shall be both scoured, and rinsed in water.”
Meaning
- To scour, polish(Qal) to scour, polish · (Pual) to be scoured
How it's translated
- and it will be scoured 1
- polished 1
- polish 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 1
- 2 Chronicles 1
- Jeremiah 1
3 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- 2 Chronicles 4:16The pots also, and the shovels, and the fleshhooks, and all their instruments, did Huram his father make to king Solomon for the house of the LORD of bright brass.
- Jeremiah 46:4Harness the horses; and get up, ye horsemen, and stand forth with your helmets; furbish the spears, and put on the brigandines.
Hebrew dictionary
מָרַק maraq · to polish
1) to scour, polish 1a) (Qal) to scour, polish 1b) (Pual) to be scoured
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “polish” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
PO'LISH, adjective
Pertaining to Poland, a level country on the south of Russia and the Baltic.
All definitions and other forms of “polish”
POL'ISH, verb transitive
[Latin polio.]
- To make smooth and glossy, usually by friction; as, to polish glass, marble, metals and the like.
- To refine; to wear off rudeness, rusticity and coarseness; to make elegant and polite; as, to polish life or manners.
POL'ISH, verb intransitive
To become smooth; to receive a gloss; to take a smooth and glossy surface.
POL'ISH, noun
A smooth, glossy surface produced by friction.
- Refinement; elegance of manners.
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.