Lexical Definition

‎דְּיוֹ‎ dᵉyôw (deh-yo') ink ^H:N-M
of uncertain derivation

ink.

• ink

1) ink

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎דְּיוֺ‎ noun masculine ink (Late Hebrew id., Aramaic ‎דְּיוּתָא‎ ; Arabic inkbottle, inkhorn; Ges-Dietr Fl NHWB^{i. 41 derived} from √ ‎דוה‎ in assumed sense of slowly flowing; Fl compare Arabic thin skin on surface of milk, compare also Ol^{§ 178 g}), ‎וַאֲנִי‎ ‎כֹּתֵב עַלהַֿסֵּפֶר בַּדְּי֑וֺ‎ Jer 36:18, compare Lag^{Ges. Abh. 216}. — On erasable quality of Hebrew ink compare RS^{OTJC, 400 f.} ed. 2, 71; see further L. Löw^{Graphische Requisiten etc. bel den Juden, 1870, i. 145 ff}.

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