Lexicon / H1615
גִּר
gir
  • chalk
  • lime

STEPBible TBESH

Glosses: chalk

chalk, lime

Aramaic equivalent: gir (גִּיר "plaster" H1528)

BDB (Brown-Driver-Briggs)

Glosses: chalk; lime

Root √גיר: גיר גִּיר boil, boil up ware id. foam quicklime heat in chest from rage or hunger Arabic admodum aestuans (? cf. Aram. NH; Ar. also(Lanc);acc. to Fl NHWB i. 433b; but cf. infr.)

גִּר n.[m.] chalk lime Is 27:9 .