Tin
בְּדִילStrong’s H0913bedil (be-dil)
Appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Bedil is the Hebrew word usually translated “tin” and “slag your”. It appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
“For who hath despised the day of small things? for they shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel with those seven; they are the eyes of the LORD, which run to and fro through the whole earth.”
Meaning
- Alloy, tin, drossof Israel (metaph.)
How it's translated
- and tin 2
- tin 2
- the tin 1
- slag your 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 3
- Numbers 1
- Isaiah 1
- Zechariah 1
4 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Numbers 31:22Only the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead,
- Isaiah 1:25And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin:
- Ezekiel 22:18Son of man, the house of Israel is to me become dross: all they are brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are even the dross of silver.
- Ezekiel 22:20As they gather silver, and brass, and iron, and lead, and tin, into the midst of the furnace, to blow the fire upon it, to melt it; so will I gather you in mine anger and in my fury, and I will leave you there, and melt you.
- Ezekiel 27:12Tarshish was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of all kind of riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded in thy fairs.
Hebrew dictionary
בְּדִיל bedil · tin
1) alloy, tin, dross 1a) of Israel (metaph.)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “tin” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
TIN, noun
[Latin stannum; stagnum.]
- A white metal, with a slight tinge of yellow.
- Thin plates of iron covered with tin
All definitions and other forms of “tin”
TIN, verb transitive
To cover with tin or overlay with tinfoil.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.