giyr, siyr. Le 14:42,48; De 27:2,4; Jos 8:32. The inscription at Ebal was cut while the plaster was still moist. In Da 5:5 the accuracy of Scripture appears; the Nineveh walls were paneled with alabaster slabs, but no alabaster being procurable at Babylon enamel or stucco ("plaster") for receiving ornamental designs covers the bricks; on it Belshazzar's doom was written.
And they shall put other stones in the place of those stones, and he shall plaster the house with fresh mortar.
But if the priest inspects it and the disease has not spread after the house was plastered, he shall pronounce the house clean, because the disease is healed.
And on the day when you pass over the Jordan to the land which the Lord your God gives you, you shall set up great stones and cover them with plaster.
And when you have gone over the Jordan, you shall set up these stones, as I command you this day, on Mount Ebal, and coat them with plaster.
And there, in the presence of the Israelites, [Joshua] wrote on the stones a copy of the law of Moses.
Immediately and suddenly there appeared the fingers of a man's hand and wrote on the plaster of the wall opposite the candlestick [so exposed especially to the light] in the king's palace, and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.