Lexical Summary puk: antimony, stibium Original Word: פוּךְTransliteration: puk Phonetic Spelling: (pook) Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: antimony, stibium Meaning: antimony, stibium Strong's Concordance fair colors, glistering, paintedFrom an unused root meaning to paint; dye (specifically, stibium for the eyes) -- fair colours, glistering, paint(-ed) (-ing). Brown-Driver-Briggs H6320. puk מּוּךְ noun [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 ׳וַתָּשֶׂם 2 Kings 9:30, וגו ׳תִּקְרְעִי Jeremiah 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 ׳אַבְנֵי 1 Chronicles 29:2 are perhaps stones of brilliant hue of antimony. — compare proper name הַמּוּךְ קֶרֶן, and כָּחַל. |
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