Strong's #2091: zahab (pronounced zaw-hawb')
from an unused root meaning to shimmer; gold, figuratively, something gold-colored (i.e. yellow), as oil, a clear sky:-- gold(-en), fair weather.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
zâhâb
1) gold
1a) as precious metal
1b) as a measure of weight
1c) of brilliance, splendour (figuratively)
Part of Speech: noun masculine
Relation: from an unused root meaning to shimmer
Usage:
This word is used 390 times:
Judges 8:26: "a thousand and seven hundred shekels of gold; ornaments, and collars,"
1 Samuel 6:4: "we shall return to him? They answered, Five golden emerods, and five mice,"
1 Samuel 6:4: "golden emerods, and five golden mice, according to the number of the lords of the Philistines:"
1 Samuel 6:8: "the cart; and put the jewels of gold, ye return him for a trespass offering, in a coffer"
1 Samuel 6:11: "and the coffer with the mice of gold of their emerods."
1 Samuel 6:15: "was with it, wherein the jewels of gold were, and put them on the great stone:"
1 Samuel 6:17: "And these are the golden emerods which the Philistines returned for a trespass offering unto the LORD;"
1 Samuel 6:18: " And the golden mice, according to the number of all the cities of the Philistines belonging to the five lords,"
2 Samuel 1:24: "other delights, who put on of gold upon your apparel."
2 Samuel 8:7: "took the shields of gold that were on the servants"
2 Samuel 8:10: "And Joram brought with him vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and vessels of brass:"
2 Samuel 8:11: "unto the LORD, with the silver and gold that he had dedicated"
2 Samuel 12:30: "from off his head, the weight whereof was a talent of gold with the precious and it was"
2 Samuel 21:4: "said unto him, We will have no silver nor gold of Saul, nor of his house;"
1 Kings 6:20: "thereof: and he overlaid it with pure gold; and so covered the altar which was of cedar."
1 Kings 6:21: "the house within with pure gold: and he made a partition by the chains of gold"
1 Kings 6:21: "with pure gold: and he made a partition by the chains of gold the oracle; and he overlaid"
1 Kings 6:21: "of gold the oracle; and he overlaid it with gold."
1 Kings 6:22: "And the whole house he overlaid with gold, until he had finished all the house:"
1 Kings 6:22: "was by the oracle he overlaid with gold."
1 Kings 6:28: "And he overlaid the cherubims with gold."
1 Kings 6:30: "And the floor of the house he overlaid with gold, within and without."
1 Kings 6:32: "and open and overlaid them with gold, and spread gold upon"
1 Kings 6:32: "them with gold, and spread gold upon the cherubims, and upon the palm trees."
1 Kings 6:35: "and open flowers: and covered them with gold fitted upon the carved work."
1 Kings 7:48: "of the LORD: the altar of gold, and the table of gold, whereupon"
1 Kings 7:48: "the altar and the table of gold, whereupon the shewbread"
1 Kings 7:49: "And the candlesticks of pure gold, five on the right side, and five on the left,"
1 Kings 7:49: "before the oracle, with the flowers, and the tongs of gold,"
1 Kings 7:50: "and the spoons, and the censers of pure gold; and the hinges of gold, both for the doors"
1 Kings 7:50: "of pure gold; and the hinges of gold, both for the doors house, the most"
1 Kings 7:51: "had dedicated; even the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, did he put among the treasures of the house"
1 Kings 9:11: "trees and fir trees, and with gold, according to all his desire,) that then king"
1 Kings 9:14: "to the king sixscore talents of gold."
1 Kings 9:28: "to Ophir, and fetched from thence gold, four hundred and twenty"
1 Kings 10:2: "spices, and very much gold, and precious stones: and when she was come to"
1 Kings 10:10: "a hundred and twenty talents of gold, and of spices very great store, and precious"
1 Kings 10:11: "of Hiram, that brought gold from Ophir, brought in from Ophir"
1 Kings 10:14: "Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was"
1 Kings 10:14: "and six talents of gold,"
1 Kings 10:16: "two hundred targets of beaten gold: six hundred shekels of gold"
1 Kings 10:16: "gold: six hundred shekels of gold to one target."
1 Kings 10:17: "hundred shields of beaten gold; three pound of gold went"
1 Kings 10:17: "gold; three pound of gold went to shield:"
1 Kings 10:18: "of ivory, and overlaid it with the best gold."
1 Kings 10:21: "Solomon's drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest"
1 Kings 10:21: "of the forest were of pure gold; none were of silver: it was nothing"
1 Kings 10:22: "the navy of Tharshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks."
1 Kings 10:25: "vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and garments, and armor, horses,"
1 Kings 12:28: "and made two calves of gold, and said unto them, It is too much for you to go up"
