Gold
בֶּ֫צֶרStrong’s H1220betser (be-tser)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Betser is the Hebrew word usually translated “gold” and “gold your”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks.”
Meaning
- Gold, precious ore, ring-gold
How it's translated
- gold 1
- gold your 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 2
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
בֶּ֫צֶר betser · gold
gold, precious ore, ring-gold
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “gold” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
GOLD, noun
- A precious metal of a bright yellow color, and the most ductile and malleable of all the metals.
- Money.
- Something pleasing or valuable; as a heart of gold
- A bright yellow color; as a flower edged with gold
All definitions and other forms of “gold”
- Riches; wealth.
GOLD, adjective
Made of gold; consisting of gold; as a gold chain.
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.