Word Study · Strong's H1528 · Hebrew

גִּיר

gir

gheer

Strong's 1890 spelling: gîyr

“lime”

Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain

lime

Rendered in the KJV as

plaster.

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inflected formdistinct spellings

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Inflected forms · 1

גִּירָ֕א1

How it is rendered · 1

plaster the1

The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.

How it parses · 1

noun · masculine or feminine singular · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)1

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Daniel1 occurrence

Daniel 5:5גִּירָ֕אgira'noun · masculine or feminine singular · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)At that moment the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall, near the lampstand in the royal palace. As the king watched the hand that was writing,here: plaster the

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