Hebrew Meaning of alabaster

אלבסטר

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Definitions and Meaning of alabaster in English

Wordnet

alabaster (n)

a compact fine-textured, usually white gypsum used for carving

a hard compact kind of calcite

a very light white

Wordnet

alabaster (a)

of or resembling alabaster

Webster

alabaster (n.)

A compact variety or sulphate of lime, or gypsum, of fine texture, and usually white and translucent, but sometimes yellow, red, or gray. It is carved into vases, mantel ornaments, etc.

A hard, compact variety of carbonate of lime, somewhat translucent, or of banded shades of color; stalagmite. The name is used in this sense by Pliny. It is sometimes distinguished as oriental alabaster.

A box or vessel for holding odoriferous ointments, etc.; -- so called from the stone of which it was originally made.

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אלבסטר

a compact fine-textured, usually white gypsum used for carving, a hard compact kind of calcite, a very light white, of or resembling alabasterA compact variety

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alabamian => אלאבמאי, alabaman => אלבמני, alabama river => נהר אלבמה, alabama period => תקופת אלבמה, alabama lip fern => שפתן המפרץ,