STRONGS NUMBER H6320


Word Summary
puk: antimony, stibium
Original Word: פוּךְ
Transliteration: puk
Phonetic Spelling: (pook)
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: antimony, stibium
Meaning: antimony, stibium
Strong's Concordance
fair colors, glistering, painted

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

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H6320. puk

מּוּךְnoun [masculine] antimony, stibium (Late Hebrew = Biblical Hebrew; compare possibly Arabic open, separate; Syriac pulverize; but מּוּךְ‎ perhaps foreign word); — black mineral powder, for increasing brilliance of eyes by darkening edges of lids; עֵינֶוהָ בֵּמּ ׳וַתָּשֶׂם2 Kings 9:30, וגו ׳תִּקְרְעִיJeremiah 4:30; (on practice in Arabic see WeGGN, 1893, 443; in Egypt, LaneMod.Egypt.ed. 5, i. 45 f.); figurative Isaiah 54:11 of dark cement setting off precious stones (but WeDLZ, Aug. 2, 1890 CheHpt and others read נֹפֶךְ‎ q. v.); פ ׳אַבְנֵי1 Chronicles 29:2 are perhaps stones of brilliant hue of antimony. — compare proper name הַמּוּךְ קֶרֶן‎, and כָּחַל‎.