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 let them take other stones and put them in the places of those stones, and other mortar, and plaster the house withal. If now the plague come again and break out in the house, after that they have taken away the stones and scraped the house, and after that the house is plastered anew: read more. let the priest come and see it. And if then he perceive that the plague hath eaten further in the house, then it is a fretting leprosy that is in the house, and it is unclean. Then they shall break down the house: both stones, timber and all the mortar of the house, and carry it out of the city unto a foul place. Moreover, he that goeth into the house all the while that it is shut up, shall be unclean until night. And he that sleepeth in the house shall wash his clothes, and he also that eateth in the house shall wash his clothes. "But and if the priest come and see that the plague hath spread no further in the house after that it is new plastered, then let him make it clean for the plague is healed.
And when ye be come over Jordan unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, set up great stones and plaster them with plaster, and write upon them all the words of this law, when thou art come over: that thou mayest come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee: a land that floweth with milk and honey, as the LORD God of thy fathers hath promised thee. read more. When ye be come over Jordan, see that ye set up these stones which I command you this day in mount Ebal, and plaster them with plaster.
And he wrote there, upon the stones, the second law of Moses which he wrote in the presence of the children of Israel.
And Isaiah said, "Take a plaster of figs, and lay it upon the sore, so shall it be whole."
In the very same hour there appeared fingers, as it had been of a man's hand writing, right over against the candlestick upon the plain wall in the king's palace: and the king saw the palm of the hand that wrote.