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Silver

כְּסַףStrong’s H3702

kesaph (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,”
Daniel 2:32 KJV
Meaning
  1. 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.

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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

  1. A metal of a white color and lively brilliancy.
  2. Money; coin made of silver
  3. Any thing of soft splendor.
All definitions and other forms of “silver”

    SIL'VER, adjective

    1. Made of silver; as a silver cup.
    2. White like silver; as silver hair.
    3. White, or pale; of a pale luster; as the silver moon.
    4. SOft; as a silver voice or sound.

    SIL'VER, verb transitive

    1. To cover superficially with a coat of silver; as, to silver a pin or a dialplate.
    2. To foliate; to cover with tinfoil amalgamated with quicksilver; as, to silver glass.
    3. To adorn with mild luster; to make smooth and bright.
    4. 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.