Malachi 3:3
And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the LORD an offering in righteousness.
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Malachi 3:3
And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the LORD an offering in righteousness.
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צָרַף
tsâraph · tsaw-raf'
1 times translated as this KJV form33 total Strong's occurrences
to fuse (metal), i.e. refine (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: cast, (re-) fine(-er), founder, goldsmith, melt, pure, purge away, try.
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And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the LORD an offering in righteousness.
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refiner
REFI'NER, noun
1. One that refines metals or other things.
2. An improver in purity and elegance; as a refiner of language.
3. An inventor of superfluous subtilities; one is who over nice in discrimination, in argument, reasoning, philosophy, etc.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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