Silver
כְּסַףStrong’s H3702kesaph (ke-saph)
Appears in 13 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Kesaph is the Aramaic word usually translated “silver” and “silver the”. It appears in 13 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
- Silveras metal · as money
How it's translated
- silver 5
- and silver 4
- silver the 3
- with silver the 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezra 7
- Daniel 6
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 2:45In 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 5:2In contextBelshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, might drink therein.
- Daniel 5:4In contextThey drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.
- Daniel 5:23In contextBut hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou, and thy lords, thy wives, and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them; and thou hast praised the gods of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know: and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified:
- Ezra 5:14And the vessels also of gold and silver of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took out of the temple that was in Jerusalem, and brought them into the temple of Babylon, those did Cyrus the king take out of the temple of Babylon, and they were delivered unto one, whose name was Sheshbazzar, whom he had made governor;
Aramaic dictionary
כְּסַף kesaph · silver
1) silver 1a) as metal 1b) as money
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “silver” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SIL'VER, noun
- A metal of a white color and lively brilliancy.
- Money; coin made of silver
- Any thing of soft splendor.
All definitions and other forms of “silver”
SIL'VER, adjective
- Made of silver; as a silver cup.
- White like silver; as silver hair.
- White, or pale; of a pale luster; as the silver moon.
- SOft; as a silver voice or sound.
SIL'VER, verb transitive
- To cover superficially with a coat of silver; as, to silver a pin or a dialplate.
- To foliate; to cover with tinfoil amalgamated with quicksilver; as, to silver glass.
- To adorn with mild luster; to make smooth and bright.
- To make hoary.
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.