Bible Encyclopedia: Chalk

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Strong's Hebrew

1615. gir -- chalk, lime
... 1614, 1615. gir. 1616 . chalk, lime. Transliteration: gir Phonetic Spelling:
(gheer) Short Definition: chalk. Word Origin from an ...
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1528. gir -- chalk, plaster
... 1527, 1528. gir. 1529 . chalk, plaster. Transliteration: gir Phonetic Spelling:
(gheer) Short Definition: plaster. Word Origin (Aramaic ...
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8279. sered -- a stylus
... 8278, 8279. sered. 8280 . a stylus. Transliteration: sered Phonetic Spelling:
(seh'-red) Short Definition: chalk. Word Origin from ...
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68. eben -- a stone
... From the root of banah through the meaning to build; a stone -- + carbuncle, + mason, +
plummet, (chalk-, hail-, head-, sling-)stone(-ny), (divers) weight(-s). ...
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Library

On a Piece of Chalk. A Lecture to Working Men.
... IX. ON A PIECE OF CHALK. A LECTURE TO WORKING MEN. If a well were to be
sunk at our feet in the midst of the city of Norwich, the ...
/.../huxley/lay sermons addresses and reviews/ix on a piece of.htm

The Gods of Egypt
... continued. "See. This is what has made me sing.". He unslung his wallet
and took out of it a statuette of creamy chalk. "Thus far ...
//christianbookshelf.org/miller/the yoke/chapter xv the gods of.htm

Species, or Units of Nature.
... Do the facts sustain this assumption? The little animals whose remains compose
the great chalk-beds are alive and working. Inarticulate ...
/.../species or units of nature.htm

Naparima and Montserrat
... full share of those later disturbances of the earth-crust, which carried tertiary
strata up along the shoulders of the Alps; which upheaved the chalk of the ...
//christianbookshelf.org/kingsley/at last/chapter x naparima and montserrat.htm

The Bad Squire
... A poacher's widow sat sighing On the side of the white chalk bank, Where
under the gloomy fir-woods One spot in the ley throve rank. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/kingsley/andromeda and other poems/the bad squire.htm

Of Removing Tithes.
... Chalk and chalk-pits pay no tithes, nor do bricks, clay, coal, or mines, they being
of the substance of the earth, and not annually increasing.2 Inst.651. ...
/.../prideaux/directions to church-wardens/8 of removing tithes.htm

Geological Contemporaneity and Persistent Types of Life.
... exceptional phaenomenon of as many extinct as existing orders, if not more; the
four mentioned maintaining their existence from the Lias to the Chalk inclusive ...
/.../x geological contemporaneity and persistent.htm

For Instance, Then, the Images of Our Kings Here...
... with respect those of the far more precious material, slight those of a less valuable,
but honour every image in the world, even though it be of chalk or bronze ...
/.../methodius/from the discourse on the resurrection/part ii for instance then.htm

A Supplementary Chapter to the Bible in Spain
... By Spain we of course mean the Spanish nation"for as for the country, it is so much
impassible matter, so much rock and sand, chalk and clay"with which we ...
/.../a supplementary chapter to the.htm

The Burning of Athens.
... a body of the Phocaeans, six hundred in number, one day whitened their faces, their
arms and hands, their clothes, and all their weapons, with chalk, and then ...
//christianbookshelf.org/abbott/xerxes/chapter x the burning of.htm

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) A soft, earthy substance, of a white, grayish, or yellowish white color, consisting of calcium carbonate, and having the same composition as common limestone.

2. (n.) Finely prepared chalk, used as a drawing implement; also, by extension, a compound, as of clay and black lead, or the like, used in the same manner. See Crayon.

3. (v. t.) To rub or mark with chalk.

4. (v. t.) To manure with chalk, as land.

5. (v. t.) To make white, as with chalk; to make pale; to bleach.

Thesaurus

Chalk (8 Occurrences)
... 2. (n.) Finely prepared chalk, used as a drawing implement; also, by extension,
a compound, as of clay and black lead, or the like, used in the same manner. ...
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Chalk-stones (1 Occurrence)
Chalk-stones. Chalkstones, Chalk-stones. Challenge . Multi-Version
Concordance Chalk-stones (1 Occurrence). Isaiah 27 ...
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Daubing (6 Occurrences)
... err, Saying, Peace! and there is no peace, And that one is building a wall,
And lo, they are daubing it with chalk. (YLT). Ezekiel 13 ...
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Challenge (6 Occurrences)

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Wanderings (7 Occurrences)
... formation (Hull, Memoir on the Geology and Geography of Arabia-Petraea, etc., 1886)
consists of Cretaceous limestones of the Eocene and Chalk ages, beneath ...
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Line (131 Occurrences)
... clothesline; a towline. 8. (n.) A more or less threadlike mark of pen, pencil,
or graver; any long mark; as, a chalk line. 9. (n.) The ...
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Flooding (4 Occurrences)
... Ezekiel 13:11 Say to those daubing with chalk -- It falleth, There hath been an
overflowing shower, And ye, O hailstones, do fall, And a tempestuous wind doth ...
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Formeth (11 Occurrences)
... Isaiah 44:13 The worker in wood stretcheth out a line; he marketh it out with red
chalk; he formeth it with sharp tools, and he marketh it out with the compass ...
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Tempestuous (8 Occurrences)
... Ezekiel 13:11 Say to those daubing with chalk -- It falleth, There hath been an
overflowing shower, And ye, O hailstones, do fall, And a tempestuous wind doth ...
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Divinations (10 Occurrences)
... Ezekiel 22:28 And its prophets have daubed for them with chalk, Seeing a vain thing,
and divining for them a lie, Saying, 'Thus said the Lord Jehovah:' And ...
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Bible Concordance

Chalk (8 Occurrences)

Isaiah 27:9 Therefore, by this the iniquity of Jacob will be forgiven, and this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: that he makes all the stones of the altar as chalk stones that are beaten in pieces, so that the Asherim and the incense altars shall rise no more.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Isaiah 33:12 And the peoples will be like the burning of chalk: as thorns cut down, which are burned in the fire.
(BBE)

Isaiah 44:13 The worker in wood stretcheth out a line; he marketh it out with red chalk; he formeth it with sharp tools, and he marketh it out with the compass, and maketh it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of man: that it may remain in the house.
(DBY NAS)

Ezekiel 13:10 Because, even because, they did cause My people to err, Saying, Peace! and there is no peace, And that one is building a wall, And lo, they are daubing it with chalk.
(YLT)

Ezekiel 13:11 Say to those daubing with chalk -- It falleth, There hath been an overflowing shower, And ye, O hailstones, do fall, And a tempestuous wind doth rend,
(YLT)

Ezekiel 13:14 And I have broken down the wall that ye daubed with chalk, And have caused it to come unto the earth, And revealed hath been its foundation, And it hath fallen, And ye have been consumed in its midst, And ye have known that I 'am' Jehovah.
(YLT)

Ezekiel 13:15 And I have completed My wrath on the wall, And on those daubing it with chalk, And I say to you: The wall is not, And those daubing it are not;
(YLT)

Ezekiel 22:28 And its prophets have daubed for them with chalk, Seeing a vain thing, and divining for them a lie, Saying, 'Thus said the Lord Jehovah:' And Jehovah hath not spoken.
(YLT)

Subtopics

Chalk

Chalk Stones

Chalk: General Scriptures Concerning

Related Terms

Chalk-stones (1 Occurrence)

Daubing (6 Occurrences)

Challenge (6 Occurrences)

Wanderings (7 Occurrences)

Line (131 Occurrences)

Flooding (4 Occurrences)

Formeth (11 Occurrences)