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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:

1 Kings 14:26: "all the shields of gold which Solomon had made."
1 Kings 15:15: "into the house of the LORD, silver, and gold, and vessels."
1 Kings 15:18: "all the silver and the gold that were left in the treasures of the house of the LORD,"
1 Kings 15:19: "I have sent unto thee a present of silver and gold; and break thy league"
1 Kings 20:3: "Thy silver and thy gold is mine; thy wives also and thy children, even the goodliest,"
1 Kings 20:5: "Thou shalt deliver me thy silver, and thy gold, and thy wives, and thy children;"
1 Kings 20:7: "me for my wives, and for my children, and for my silver, and for my gold; and I denied him not."
1 Kings 22:48: "of Tharshish to go to Ophir for gold: but they went not; for"
2 Kings 5:5: "of silver, and six thousand pieces of gold, and ten changes of raiment."
2 Kings 7:8: "and carried thence silver, and gold, and raiment, and went and hid"
2 Kings 10:29: "not from after them, to wit, the golden calves that were in Bethel,"
2 Kings 12:13: "trumpets, vessels of gold, or vessels of silver, of the money"
2 Kings 12:18: "had dedicated, and his own hallowed things, and all the gold that was found in the treasures of the house of the LORD,"
2 Kings 14:14: "And he took all the gold and silver, and all the vessels that were found"
2 Kings 16:8: "took the silver and gold that was found in the house of the LORD, and in the treasures"
2 Kings 18:14: "talents of silver and thirty talents of gold."
2 Kings 20:13: "of his precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious ointment, and all the house"
2 Kings 23:33: "to a tribute talents of silver, and a talent of gold."
2 Kings 23:35: "And Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh; but he taxed"
2 Kings 23:35: "he exacted the silver and the gold of the people of the land, of every one"
2 Kings 24:13: "all the vessels of gold which Solomon king"
2 Kings 25:15: "And the firepans, and the bowls, and such things as were of gold, in gold, and of silver, in silver, the captain"
2 Kings 25:15: "and the bowls, and such things as were of gold, in gold, and of silver, in silver, the captain of the guard"
1 Chronicles 18:7: "took the shields of gold that were on the servants"
1 Chronicles 18:10: "had war with Tou;) and with him all manner of vessels of gold and silver"
1 Chronicles 18:11: "unto the LORD, with the silver and the gold that he brought"
1 Chronicles 20:2: "his head, and found it to weigh a talent of gold, and there were precious stones in it; and it was set"
1 Chronicles 21:25: "six hundred shekels of gold by weight."
1 Chronicles 22:14: "a hundred thousand talents of gold, and a thousand talents of silver;"
1 Chronicles 22:16: " Of the gold, the silver, and the brass, and the iron, there is no number. Arise therefore, and be doing,"
1 Chronicles 28:14: " He gave of gold by weight for things of gold, for all instruments of all manner of service; silver also for all"
1 Chronicles 28:14: "He gave of gold by weight for things of gold, for all instruments of all manner of service; silver also for all"
1 Chronicles 28:15: "Even the weight for the candlesticks of gold, and for their lamps of gold, by weight for every candlestick,"
1 Chronicles 28:15: "for the candlesticks of gold, and for their lamps of gold, by weight for every candlestick, and for the lamps"
1 Chronicles 28:16: "And by weight he gave gold for the tables of shewbread, for every table; and likewise silver for the tables"
1 Chronicles 28:17: "Also pure gold for the fleshhooks, and the bowls, and the cups: and for the golden basins he gave gold by weight"
1 Chronicles 28:17: "for the fleshhooks, and the bowls, and the cups: and for the golden basins he gave gold by weight for every basin;"
1 Chronicles 28:18: "And for the altar of incense refined gold by weight; and gold for the pattern of the chariot"
1 Chronicles 28:18: "refined gold by weight; and gold for the pattern of the chariot of the cherubims, that spread out"
1 Chronicles 29:2: "my might for the house of my God the gold for things to be made of gold, and the silver for things of silver, and the brass"
1 Chronicles 29:2: "for the house of my God the gold for things to be made of gold, and the silver for things of silver, and the brass"
1 Chronicles 29:3: "of my God, I have of mine own proper good, of gold and silver, which I have given to the house"
1 Chronicles 29:4: "Even three thousand talents of gold, of the gold of Ophir, and seven"
1 Chronicles 29:4: "thousand talents of gold, of the gold of the gold of Ophir, and seven thousand"
1 Chronicles 29:5: " The gold for things of gold, and the silver for things of silver, and for all manner of work to be made by the hands of artificers."
1 Chronicles 29:5: "The gold for things of gold, and the silver for things of silver, and for all manner of work to be made by the hands of artificers."
1 Chronicles 29:7: "for the service of the house of God of gold five thousand talents and ten thousand"
2 Chronicles 1:15: "made silver and gold at Jerusalem as plenteous as stones, and cedar trees made"
2 Chronicles 2:7: "therefore a man cunning to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in iron, and in purple,"
2 Chronicles 2:14: "of Tyre, skillful to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in stone,"









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