zakak · refine

What it means

zakak (זָקַק) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “refine”.

To refine, to purify: to remove impurities from gold, silver or wine by straining or melting. "Refined gold" is very pure gold.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To cleanse metal by fire; strain wine; drop rain.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• refined ×3
• purge ×1
• purified ×1
• they distill ×1
• they refine ×1

Where it appears

• 1 Chronicles×2
• Job×2
• Psalms×1
• Isaiah×1
• Malachi×1

• 1 Chronicles 28:18

  and for the altar of incense, refined gold by weight; and for the pattern of the chariot, the cherubim of gold that spread out and cover over the ark of the covenant of YHWH.

• 1 Chronicles 29:4

  three thousand talents of gold, of the gold of Ophir, and seven thousand talents of refined silver, to overlay the walls of the houses;

• Job 28:1

  For there is a mine for silver, and a place for gold that they refine.

• Job 36:27

  For he draws off drops of water; they distill rain for his mist,

• Psalms 12:6

  The sayings of YHWH are pure sayings, silver refined in a crucible of earth, purified seven times.

• Isaiah 25:6

  And YHWH Tsevaot will make for all the peoples on this mountain a feast of rich foods, a feast of aged wines, of rich foods full of marrow, of aged wines well refined.

• Malachi 3:3

  And he will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver; and he will purify the sons of Levi and purge them like gold and like silver, and they will be for YHWH those who offer an offering in righteousness.