Lexicon alil: perhaps furnace, crucible Original Word: עֲלִילPart of Speech: Noun Masculine Transliteration: alil Phonetic Spelling: (al-eel') Short Definition: furnace NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom alalDefinitionperhaps furnace, crucible NASB Translationfurnace (1).
Brown-Driver-Briggs עֲלִיל apparently noun [masculine], only ׳כֶּסֶף צָרוּף בַּע לָאָרֶץ Psalm 12:7, usually (after ᵑ7 כּוּרָא) furnace, crucible (Hup from III. עלל; De and others workshop, from I. עלל) but wholly dubious; Late Hebrew openly Levy NHWB iii. 654; Che Du strike out as gloss; compare discussion Che Expos. T. viii. 236, 336 Ne ib. 287, 379. Strong's furnace From alal in the sense of completing; probably a crucible (as working over the metal) -- furnace. see HEBREW alal |
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