Lexical Summary zaqaq: to refine, purify Original Word: זָקַקTransliteration: zaqaq Phonetic Spelling: (zaw-kak') Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to refine, purify Meaning: to strain, extract, clarify Strong's Concordance fine, pour down, purge, purify, refine A primitive root; to strain, (figuratively) extract, clarify -- fine, pour down, purge, purify, refine. Brown-Driver-Briggs H2212. zaqaq I. [זָקַק] verb refine, purify **perhaps properly strain or filter through, compare Job 36:27; Isaiah 25:6. (Aramaic זְקַק; perhaps kindred with Assyrian za‡i‡u, wind, AsrbAnnals vi. 64 and Aramaic , זִיקָּא violent wind, violent rain with whirlwind) — Qal Imperfect3masculine plural יָזֹ֫קּוּ Job 28:1 object זָהָב, 36:27 object מָטָר (see Di). Pi`el Perfect וְזִקַּק consecutive Malachi 3:3 ("" וְטִהַר) figurative, of purifying sons of Levi, like gold and silver כְּזָהָב etc. Pu`al Participle מְזֻקָּק refined, of gold 1 Chronicles 28:18, of silver 29:4: Psalm 12:7 (׳מ שׁבעתים); of settled wines מְזֻקָּקִים שְׁמָרִים Isaiah 25:6. II. זקק (Late Hebrew זָקַק bind, fetter, Aramaic זְקַק id.; compare (perhaps from idea of restraint) Arabic , Aramaic , זִיקוּקָא זִיקָּא,, Ethiopic all = (wine-) skin, etc.; also Late Hebrew זִיקָה, obligation; Aramaic ring). |