HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H5509
סִיג
sig — dross
1) a moving back or away 2) dross (usually of silver)
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Dross
Original Hebrew / Aramaic / Greek connected to this term
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HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H913
בְּדִיל
be.dil — tin
1) alloy, tin, dross 1a) of Israel (metaph.)
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שִׂיג
sig — pursuing
a moving away, dross
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ἀποκαθαίρω
apokathairō — to clear away
1. to cleanse or clean quite , ἀπ. τὴν χεῖρα εἰς τὰ χειρόμακτρα upon the towels, (Xenophon Historicus) 2. to refine from dross, (Strabo Geographus): metaphorically in Pass., ἀποκεκαθάρθαι τὴν φωνήν to be pure in dialect, (Lucian) 3. to clear away , τὰς τραπέζας (Aristophanes Comicus):—;Mid., ἀποκαθήρασθαί τινος to rid oneself of a thing, (Xenophon Historicus) (ML)
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The impurities of silver separated from the one in the process of melting (Prov. 25:4; 26:23; Ps. 119:119). It is also used to denote the base metal itself, probably before it is smelted, in Isa. 1:22, 25.
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Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.