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LIME, LIMESTONE

Calcium oxide, a caustic, white, lumpy powder which has a number of industrial uses, and commonly is produced from limestone or shells by use of intense heat. When mixed with water, it forms whitewash, used to cover walls and other surfaces. In Deut. 27:2, 4 lime (Heb. śîḏ) is to be used to coat the stones in preparation for recording the words of the law following the crossing of the Jordan by the people of Israel. When bones are burned to a powder, lime is the result. Isa. 33:12 describes such burning as a total annihilation. In Amos 2:1 Moab is condemned for reducing the bones of the king of Edom to lime.

Martha Jean Mugg Bailey






Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000)

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