Lexical Summary hyalos: a clear transparent stone, glass Original Word: ὕαλοςTransliteration: hyalos Phonetic Spelling: (hoo'-al-os) Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Short Definition: a clear transparent stone, glass Meaning: a clear transparent stone, glass Strong's Concordance glass. Perhaps from the same as huetos (as being transparent like rain); glass -- glass. see GREEK huetos Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 5194: ὕαλοςὕαλος, ὑαλου, ὁ (probably allied with ὑει, ὑετός (which see); hence, 'rain-drop', Curtius, 9604; Vanicek, p. 1046; but others make it of Egyptian origin (cf. Liddell and Scott, under the word)), from Herodotus ((3, 24) who writes ὕελος; (cf. Winer's Grammar, 22)) down; 1. any stone transparent like glass. 2. glass: Revelation 21:18, 21. |
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