Strong's Greek: 5194. ὕαλος (hualos) -- a clear transparent stone, glass

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Lexicon

hualos: a clear transparent stone, glass

Original Word: ὕαλος, ου, ἡ
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Transliteration: hualos
Phonetic Spelling: (hoo'-al-os)
Short Definition: glass
Definition: glass, crystal, clear transparent stone.

HELPS word-Studies

5194 hýalos – glass. 5194 (hýalos) refers to any transparent substance (like crystal), i.e. "see-through stones." On both of its occasions in the NT, 5194 ("pure, transparent glass") refers to the New Jerusalem – "apparently a metaphor (personification) of all the glorified saints, serving as the eternal dwelling place of God" (G. Archer).

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin
probably of foreign origin
Definition
a clear transparent stone, glass
NASB Translation
glass (2).

Thayer's

STRONGS NT 5194: ὕαλος

ὕαλος, ὑαλου, ὁ (probably allied with ὑει, ὑετός (which see); hence, 'rain-drop', Curtius, 9604; Vanicek, p. 1046; but others make it of Egyptian origin (cf. Liddell and Scott, under the word)), from Herodotus ((3, 24) who writes ὕελος; (cf. Winer's Grammar, 22)) down;

1. any stone transparent like glass.

2. glass: Revelation 21:18, 21.

Strong's

glass.

Perhaps from the same as huetos (as being transparent like rain); glass -- glass.

see GREEK huetos