Lexical Summary alil: perhaps furnace, crucible Original Word: עֲלִילTransliteration: alil Phonetic Spelling: (al-eel') Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: perhaps furnace, crucible Meaning: perhaps furnace, crucible Strong's Concordance furnace From alal in the sense of completing; probably a crucible (as working over the metal) -- furnace. see HEBREW alal Brown-Driver-Briggs H5948. alil עֲלִיל apparently noun [masculine], only לָאָרֶץ בַּע צָרוּף ׳כֶּסֶף Psalm 12:7, usually (after כּוּרָא ᵑ7) furnace, crucible (Hup from III. עלל; De and others workshop, from I. עלל) but wholly dubious; Late Hebrew openly LevyNHWB iii. 654; Che Du strike out as gloss; compare discussion Che Expos. T. viii. 236, 336 Neib. 287, 379. |