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The Definition of the word Lime

Lime

The Hebrew word so rendered means boiling" or "effervescing." From Isa. 33:12 it appears that lime was made in a kiln lighted by thorn-bushes. In Amos 2:1 it is recorded that the king of "Moab "burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime." The same" "Hebrew word is used in Deut. 27:2-4, and is there rendered" plaster. Limestone is the chief constituent of the mountains of Syria.


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