Lexicon hualos: a clear transparent stone, glass Original Word: ὕαλος, ου, ἡPart 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 Originprobably of foreign origin Definitiona clear transparent stone, glass NASB Translationglass (2).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 5194: ὕαλοςὕαλος, 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 |
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