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International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia

Mirror:

mir'er.

Nave's Topical Bible

Mirror: Of Brass (Bronze)

Job 37:18

Mirror: Given by the Iraelitish Women

To be melted for the laver of the tabernacle,

Exd 38:8.

Mirror: Figurative:

1Cr 13:12; 2Cr 3:18; Jam 1:23, 24

Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words

Mirror:

rendered, "glass" in the AV, is used of any surface sufficiently smooth and regular to reflect rays of light uniformly, and thus produce images of objects which actually in front of it appear to the eye as if they were behind it. "Mirrors" in Biblical times were, it seems, metallic; hence the RV adopts the more general term "mirror;" in 1Cr 13:12, spiritual knowledge in this life is represented metaphorically as an image dimly perceived in a "mirror;" in Jam 1:23, the "law of liberty" is figuratively compared to a "mirror;" the hearer who obeys not is like a person who, having looked into the "mirror," forgets the reflected image after turning away; he who obeys is like one who gazes into the "mirror" and retains in his soul the image of what he should be.

Note: For the verb katoptrizo, "to reflect as a mirror" (some regard it as meaning "beholding in a mirror"), in 2Cr 3:18, see BEHOLD, No. 12.

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Mirror:

(Exodus 38:8; Job 37:18). The Hebrew women on coming out of Egypt probably brought with them mirrors like those which were used by the Egyptians, and were made of a mixed metal, chiefly copper, wrought with admirable skill, and susceptible of a bright lustre (1 Chronicles 13:12).