Lexical Summary ophereth: lead (a metal) Original Word: עוֹפֶרֶתTransliteration: ophereth Phonetic Spelling: (o-feh'-reth) Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: lead (a metal) Meaning: lead (a metal) Strong's Concordance lead Or mophereth {o-feh'-reth}; feminine participle active of aphar; lead (from its dusty color) -- lead. see HEBREW aphar Brown-Driver-Briggs H5777. ophereth עֹפֶרֶת noun masculineJeremiah 6:29 (si vera lectio Qr) lead (√ dubious; probably foreign word; compare אֲבָרָא ᵑ7 lead, Syriac , and (asAramaic loan-word) Arabic [see Dozy], Frä152; perhaps also Assyrian abaru, a metal, magnesite according to HilprAssyriaca i (1894), 80 ff. Hptib. 83); — ע ׳כִּכַּר Zechariah 5:7 a round weight (disc) of lead, ׳אֶבֶןהָֿעו 5:5; with other metals (see בְּדִיל) : ׳עוֺ Ezekiel 22:18, 20; 27:12 הָעֹפָ֑רֶת Numbers 31:22 (P); ׳עֹפ also Job 19:24 (with which chiselled letters are filled according to Di and most; Bu reads ׳בְּע in [a tablet of] lead); also (as flux) Jeremiah 6:29 (reading Qr; so Gf Co; emendation Gie); ׳עוֺ in simile Exodus 15:10 (song). עֵפָ֫תָה see עֵיפָה below II. עוף. עֵץ see II.עצה. |
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