Definition

properly, a pearl (from its sheen as rapidly turned); by analogy, pearl-stone, i.e. mother-of-pearl or alabaster

Etymology

apparently from the same as H1865 (דְּרוֹר);

Word family

• דְּרוֹר dᵉrôwr

How the KJV renders it

• white

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.