King James Bible
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STRONGS NUMBER H2141
Transliteration: zakak
Phonetic Spelling: (zaw-kak')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to be bright, clean or pure
Meaning: to be bright, clean or pure
Word Summary
zakak: to be bright, clean or pure
Original Word: זָכַךְTransliteration: zakak
Phonetic Spelling: (zaw-kak')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to be bright, clean or pure
Meaning: to be bright, clean or pure
Strong's Concordance
be make clean, be purer A primitive root (compare zakah); to be transparent or clean (phys. Or morally) -- be (make) clean, be pure(-r).
see HEBREW zakah
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H2141. zakak
[זָכַךְ] verb be bright, clean, pure (kindred with foregoing. Only Lamentations, Job) —
Qal Perfect only 3 masculine plural זַכּ֫וּ; —
1 be right, shining, figurative of splendour of nobles ׳ז מִשֶּׁלֶג נְזִירִים Lamentations 4:7 ("" צַחוּ מֵחָלָב).
2 be clean, pure in God's sight, of heavens Job 15:15, of stars 25:5 ("" יַאֲהִיל of moon; compare also יִזְכֶּה 15:14; 25:4).
Hiph`il cleanse, only Perfect1singular כַּמָּֽי׃ בְּבֹר וַהֲזִכּוֺתִי Job 9:30, figurative of making morally spotless ("" הִתְרָחַצְתִּי).