REFINING

(The process of eliminating impurities by fire)

Of gold

1Ch 28:18

Of silver

1Ch 29:4

Of wine

Isa 25:6

FIGURATIVE

Of the corrective judgments of God

Isa 1:25; 48:10; Jer 9:7; Zec 13:9; Mal 3:2,3

Of the purity of the word of God

Ps 18:30; 119:140