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Gold

דְּהַבStrong’s H1722

dehav (de-hav)

Appears in 23 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Dehav is the Aramaic word usually translated “gold” and “gold the”. It appears in 23 verses of the Old Testament.

“This image’s head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass,”
Daniel 2:32 KJV
Meaning
  1. Gold
How it's translated
  • gold 17
  • and gold 3
  • and gold the 3

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Daniel 18
  • Ezra 5

2 books in all.

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Aramaic dictionary

דְּהַב dehav · gold

gold Aramaic of za.hav (זָהָב "gold" H2091)

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

  1. A precious metal of a bright yellow color, and the most ductile and malleable of all the metals.
  2. Money.
  3. Something pleasing or valuable; as a heart of gold
  4. A bright yellow color; as a flower edged with gold
All definitions and other forms of “gold”
  1. 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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.