Reference: Plaster, Plaister
Morish
This was used to cover the walls of houses, Le 14:42-48; Da 5:5; and was also spread on large stones, on which the law could be inscribed. De 27:2-4; Jos 8:32. It may have been compounded of different substances for divers purposes. In Isa 38:21 plaister is used in a medical sense as spread on a boil.
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And they took other stones and brought instead of these stones; and he shall take other clay and spread over the house. And if the stroke shall turn back and break out in the house after he took away the stones, and after he scraped off the house, and after it was spread over; read more. And the priest came and saw, and behold, the stroke spread in the house; it a painful leprosy in the house: it is unclean. And he tore down the house, and its stones, and its wood, and all the dust of the house: and he brought forth without the city, into an unclean place. And he coming in to the house all the days it is shut up, shall be unclean till the evening. And he lying in the house shall wash his garments: and he eating in the house shall wash his garments. And if the priest coming in, shall come in and see, and behold, the stroke spread not in the house after spreading over the house: and the priest cleansed the house, for the stroke was healed.
And it was in the day which ye shall pass over Jordan to the land that Jehovah thy God gave to thee, and set up to thee great stones, and plaster them with lime. And write upon them all the words of this law in thy passing over, so that thou shalt go in to the land that Jehovah thy God gave to thee; a land flowing milk and honey, as Jehovah the God of thy fathers spake to thee. read more. And being in your passing over Jordan ye shall set up these stones which I command you this day, in mount Ebal, and plaster them with lime.
And he will write there upon the stones the second of the law of Moses which he wrote before the sons of Israel.
And Isaiah will say, They shall lift up round cakes of figs, and rub over the burning sore, and he shall live.
In the same moment went forth fingers of a man's hand and wrote before the candlestick upon the lime of the wall of the temple of the king: and the king saw the palm of the hand that wrote.