Lexicon gir: chalk, lime Original Word: גִּרPart of Speech: Noun Masculine Transliteration: gir Phonetic Spelling: (gheer) Short Definition: chalk NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom an unused word Definitionchalk, lime NASB Translationchalk (1).
Brown-Driver-Briggs גִּר noun [masculine] chalk, lime (perhaps Aramaic loan-word compare Frä 9; Aramaic (also Biblical Aramaic) גִּיר  ; Arabic  is loan-word Frä l.c.) — מִזְבֵּחַ כְּאַבְנֵי גִר Isaiah 27:9. Strong's chalkstone Perhaps from kuwr; lime (from being burned in a kiln) -- chalk(-stone). see HEBREW kuwr |
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