Strong's #2212: zaqaq (pronounced zaw-kak')
a primitive root; to strain, (figuratively) extract, clarify:--fine, pour down, purge, purify, refine.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
zâqaq
1) to purify, distil, strain, refine
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to purify, distil, strain
1a2) to refine
1b) (Piel) to purge, refine
1c) (Pual) to refine, purify
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root
Usage:
This word is used 7 times:
1 Chronicles 28:18: "And for the altar of incense refined gold by weight; and gold for the pattern of the chariot"
1 Chronicles 29:4: "of Ophir, and seven thousand talents of refined silver, to overlay the walls"
Job 28:1: "for the silver, and a place for gold where they fine"
Job 36:27: "he maketh small of water: they pour down rain according to the vapor"
Psalms 12:6: "tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven"
Isaiah 25:6: "of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined."
Malachi 3:3: "the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer"