Lass
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( v. t.) To smooth or polish anything, as leater, by rubbing it with a glass burnisher.
(2): ( v. t.) A hard, brittle, translucent, and commonly transparent substance, white or colored, having a conchoidal fracture, and made by fusing together sand or silica with lime, potash, soda, or lead oxide. It is used for window panes and mirrors, for articles of table and culinary use, for lenses, and various articles of ornament.
(3): ( v. t.) Any substance having a peculiar glassy appearance, and a conchoidal fracture, and usually produced by fusion.
(4): ( v. t.) Anything made of glass.
(5): ( v. t.) A looking-glass; a mirror.
(6): ( v. t.) A vessel filled with running sand for measuring time; an hourglass; and hence, the time in which such a vessel is exhausted of its sand.
(7): ( v. t.) A drinking vessel; a tumbler; a goblet; hence, the contents of such a vessel; especially; spirituous liquors; as, he took a glass at dinner.
(8): ( v. t.) An optical glass; a lens; a spyglass; - in the plural, spectacles; as, a pair of glasses; he wears glasses.
(9): ( v. t.) A weatherglass; a barometer.
(10): ( v. t.) To case in glass.
(11): ( v. t.) To reflect, as in a mirror; to mirror; - used reflexively.
(12): ( v. t.) To cover or furnish with glass; to glaze.
Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types [2]
1 Corinthians 13:12 (b) Here we may learn the lack of vision and inability to understand spiritual verities as one should.
2 Corinthians 3:18 (a) This no doubt is an illustration of the fact that we look into the Word of God and behold there the true picture of ourselves. God describes us perfectly in His Word. Having seen our need we hurry to the Saviour for cleansing. It probably also means that in the Word of God, which is the glass, we behold the beauty of the Lord, the precious Person of the Holy Spirit, the wonders of God the Father, and so we ourselves become more godly, more holy, more like Christ.
James 1:23 (b) This is a way of saying that a man sees in the Scripture the spots and the blemishes of his life but does not use the remedy to get rid of them.
Revelation 4:6 (c). It probably indicates that the throne of God rests upon and is surrounded by such holiness and purity as is best illustrated by clear glass through which everything may be seen and nothing is hidden.
Revelation 15:2 (c) GOD's angels and GOD's wrath are without spot, shadow, or sin of any kind. Everything about GOD's punishment of men is above reproach and is perfectly clear, clean and transparent.
Revelation 21:18 (c) The misuse of gold on earth is often connected with wickedness, sinfulness, hypocrisy and pretense. This city of God is quite the opposite. The gold of that city covers no evil and hides no wickedness. Everything is transparent and the bottom may be seen from the top.
Smith's Bible Dictionary [3]
Glass. The Hebrew word occurs only in Job 28:17, where, in the Authorized Version, it is rendered "crystal." In spite of the absence of specific allusion to glass in the sacred writings, the Hebrews must have been aware of the invention from paintings representing the process of glass-blowing, which have been discovered at Beni-hassan, and in tombs at other places, we know that the invention vas known at least 3500 years ago.
Fragments too of wine-vases as old as the Exodus have been discovered in Egypt. The art was also known to the ancient Assyrians. In the New Testament, glass is alluded to as an emblem of brightness. Revelation 4:6; Revelation 15:2; Revelation 21:18.
