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Strong's #6320: puwk (pronounced pook)

from an unused root meaning to paint; dye (specifically, stibium for the eyes):--fair colours, glistering, paint(-ed) (-ing).




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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pûk

1) antimony, stibium, black paint

1a) eye cosmetic

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: from an unused root meaning to paint



Usage:

This word is used 4 times:

2 Kings 9:30: "to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she painted her face, and tired"
1 Chronicles 29:2: "onyx stones, and stones to be set, glistering stones, and of divers colors, and all manner of precious"
Isaiah 54:11: "I will lay thy stones with fair colors, and lay thy foundations with sapphires."
Jeremiah 4:30: "though thou rentest thy face with painting, in vain shalt thou make thyself fair; thy lovers will despise"









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