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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.
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), by Matthew George Easton.
