Strong’s H1615 · Hebrew
גִּר
gir · gheer
Origin perhaps from כּוּר (H3564);
Meaning lime (from being burned in a kiln)
In the King James Version chalk(-stone).
In 1 verse of the King James Version
- Isaiah 27:9By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images shall not stand up.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.