Etym.: The word is said to be Egyptian. Others refer it to u(/w, as if the orig. sense were raindrop.

Sense

1. a clear, transparent stone, oriental alabaster
2. a convex lens of crystal, a burning-glass
3. glass

Examples

• οὐκ ἰσωθήσεται αὐτῇ χρυσίον καὶ ὕαλοσ καὶ τὸ ἄλλαγμα αὐτῆσ σκεύη χρυσᾶ. (Septuagint, Liber Iob 28:17)
• καὶ ἡ πλατεῖα τῆσ πόλεωσ χρυσίον καθαρὸν ὡσ ὑάλοσ διαυγήσ. (APOKALUYIS IWANOU, chapter 19 65:2)
• ὑάλοσ μέν γε καὶ κρύσταλλοσ καὶ μόρρια καὶ ὅσα ἐστὶν ἀνθρώποισ ἄλλα λίθου ποιούμενα καὶ τῶν σκευῶν τὰ κεραμεᾶ, τὰ μὲν ὑπὸ τῆσ Στυγὸσ τοῦ ὕδατοσ ῥήγνυται· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 18 7:1)

Similar forms

• ὑάλου (4)
• ὑάλον (3)
• ὑάλος (2)
• ὕαλος (1)

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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