Lexicon zakak: to be bright, clean or pure Original Word: זָכַךPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: zakak Phonetic Spelling: (zaw-kak') Short Definition: pure NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Origina prim. root Definitionto be bright, clean or pure NASB Translationcleanse (1), pure (2), purer (1).
Brown-Driver-Briggs [ זָכַךְ] verb be bright, clean, pure (kindred with foregoing. Only Lamentations, Job) — Qal Perfect only 3 masculine plural זַכּ֫וּ; — 1 be right, shining, figurative of splendour of nobles נְזִירִים מִשֶּׁלֶג ׳ז Lamentations 4:7 ("" מֵחָלָב צַחוּ). 2 be clean, pure in God's sight, of heavens Job 15:15, of stars Job 25:5 ("" יַאֲהִיל of moon; compare also יִזְכֶּה Job 15:14; Job 25:4). Hiph`il cleanse, only Perfect1singular וַהֲזִכּוֺתִי בְּבֹר כַּמָּֽי׃ Job 9:30, figurative of making morally spotless ("" הִתְרָחַצְתִּי).
Strong's be make clean, be purer A primitive root (compare zakah); to be transparent or clean (phys. Or morally) -- be (make) clean, be pure(-r). see HEBREW zakah |
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