Burnished
קָלָלStrong’s H7044qalal (qa-lal)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Qalal is the Hebrew word usually translated “burnished”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“His body also was like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire, and his arms and his feet like in colour to polished brass, and the voice of his words like the voice of a multitude.”
Meaning
- Burnished, polished
How it's translated
- burnished 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 1
- Daniel 1
2 books in all.
Related words
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Hebrew dictionary
קָלָל qalal · burnished
burnished, polished
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “burnished” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BURN'ISHED, participle passive
Polished; made glossy.
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.