gizrites Summary and Overview
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gizrites in Schaff's Bible Dictionary
GIZ'RITES . See Gezrites. GLASS was discovered by the Phoenicians, or perhaps earlier. Representations Egyptian Glass Blowers. (After Wilkinson.) Egyptian Glass Bottles. (After Wilkinson.) of the process of glass-blowing are found on Eyptian monuments, and glass beads and fragments of glass vases have been discovered of very ancient age. The only mention of glass in the O.T. is in Job 28:17, where it is translated "crystal." The mirrors referred to by the word "glass" in 1 Cor 13:12; 2 Cor 3:18; Jas 1:23 were not made of glass. See Looking-glass.