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# זְכוּכִית

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2137

**glass** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

glass [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2137/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

זְכוֹכִית²: glass [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2137/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[f.\] glass (𝔗 זכוכיתא; but v. Frä64); as precious (‖ זָהָב), yet of less value than wisdom Jb 28:17. (Baer as above; זְכוּכִית van d. H., al.)

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: glass (1).

## In the verses

[Job 28:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.28.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.28.17/#tree)

לֹא־יַעַרְכֶ֣נָּה זָ֭הָב וּזְכוֹכִ֑ית וּתְמ֖וּרָתָ֣הּ כְּלִי־פָֽז׃

*Word for word:* not it will.be.comparable.to.it gold and glass and.\[is\] exchange its a.vessel of.pure.gold

*JPS 1917:* Gold and glass cannot equal it; neither shall the exchange thereof be vessels of fine gold.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2137.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2137/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).