Lime
שִׂידStrong’s H7875sid
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Sid is the Hebrew word usually translated “lime” and “into lime”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“And it shall be on the day when ye shall pass over Jordan unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, that thou shalt set thee up great stones, and plaister them with plaister:”
Meaning
- Lime, whitewashmade by burning bones
How it's translated
- with lime 2
- lime 1
- into lime 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Deuteronomy 2
- Isaiah 1
- Amos 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Deuteronomy 27:4Therefore it shall be when ye be gone over Jordan, that ye shall set up these stones, which I command you this day, in mount Ebal, and thou shalt plaister them with plaister.
- Isaiah 33:12And the people shall be as the burnings of lime: as thorns cut up shall they be burned in the fire.
- Amos 2:1Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime:
Hebrew dictionary
שִׂיד sid · lime
1) lime, whitewash 1a) made by burning bones
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “lime” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
LIME, noun
[Latin limus; Gr. and allied to clammy. On this word is formed slime.]
- A viscous substance, sometimes laid on twigs for catching birds.
- Calcarious earth, oxyd of calcium, procured from chalk and certain stones and shells, by expelling from them the carbonic acid, by means of a strong heat in a furnace.
- The linden tree.
- [See Lemon.] A species of acid fruit, smaller than the lemon.
All definitions and other forms of “lime”
LIME, verb transitive
- To smear with a viscous substance.
- To entangle; to ensnare.
- To manure with lime
- To cement.
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.