Refining The process of eliminating by fire the dross of metals.
Of gold
1 Chronicles 28:18
Of silver
1 Chronicles 29:4
Of wine
Isaiah 25:6
Figurative:
- Of the corrective judgments of God
Isaiah 1:25; Isaiah 48:10; Jeremiah 9:7; Zechariah 13:9; Malachi 3:3
- Of the purity of the word of God
Psalms 18:30; Psalms 119:140