(pukh, "dye" (spec. "stibium"), "fair colors"; stilbonta): "`Glistering stones’ (1Ch 29:2) is better

the `inlaid’ of the [[Revised Version]] (British and American); for some kind of colored, brilliant stone seems meant" (HDB, II, 182); compare Isa 54:11 Revised Version, margin. The term is employed in Mr 9:3 to denote the white, lustrous appearance of Christ’s garments at the transfiguration. It occurs nowhere else in the [[New Testament]]. For once the Divine effulgence shone through the veil of the humiliation (compare Joh 1:14).