Refining

The process of eliminating by fire the dross of metals.

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; Isa 48:10; Jer 9:7; Zec 13:9; Mal 3:2-3

– Of the purity of the word of God

Psa 18:30; Psa 119:140