Gold
דְּהַבStrong’s H1722dehav (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,”
Meaning
- 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.
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 2:35In contextThen was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshingfloors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.
- Daniel 2:38In contextAnd wheresoever the children of men dwell, the beasts of the field and the fowls of the heaven hath he given into thine hand, and hath made thee ruler over them all. Thou art this head of gold.
- Daniel 2:45In contextForasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God hath made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter: and the dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure.
- Daniel 3:1In contextNebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof six cubits: he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon.
- Daniel 3:5In contextThat at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, ye fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king hath set up:
- Daniel 3:7In contextTherefore at that time, when all the people heard the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and all kinds of musick, all the people, the nations, and the languages, fell down and worshipped the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.
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
- 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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.