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Gold

דְּהַבStrong’s H2091

dehav (de-hav)

Appears in 336 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Dehav is the Hebrew word usually translated “gold” and “gold of”. It appears in 336 verses of the Old Testament.

“And shall also carry captives into Egypt their gods, with their princes, and with their precious vessels of silver and of gold; and he shall continue more years than the king of the north.”
Daniel 11:8 KJV
Meaning
  1. Gold
How it's translated
  • gold 275
  • and gold 30
  • the gold 24
  • and the gold 9
  • in gold 5
  • gold of 4
  • and with gold 4
  • for gold 4

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

Where it's used most
  • Exodus 88
  • 2 Chronicles 41
  • 1 Kings 33
  • Numbers 23
  • 1 Chronicles 17
  • 2 Kings 13

34 books in all.

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Explore in Scripture
All 336 verses, by book
Leviticus 1
8:9
Deuteronomy 4
7:258:1317:1729:17
Judges 2
8:248:26
Nehemiah 3
7:707:717:72
Ecclesiastes 2
2:812:6
Song of Solomon 3
1:113:105:14
Lamentations 1
4:1
Hosea 2
2:88:4
Joel 1
3:5
Nahum 1
2:9
Habakkuk 1
2:19
Zephaniah 1
1:18
Haggai 1
2:8
Malachi 1
3:3
Hebrew 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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.