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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:

2 Chronicles 3:4: "and twenty: and he overlaid it within with pure gold."
2 Chronicles 3:5: "tree, which he overlaid with fine gold, and set thereon and chains."
2 Chronicles 3:6: "with precious stones for beauty: and the gold was gold of Parvaim."
2 Chronicles 3:6: "stones for beauty: and the gold was gold of Parvaim."
2 Chronicles 3:7: "the posts, and the walls thereof, and the doors thereof, with gold; and graved cherubims the walls."
2 Chronicles 3:8: "thereof twenty cubits: and he overlaid it with fine gold, amounting to six hundred"
2 Chronicles 3:9: "of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid the upper chambers with gold."
2 Chronicles 3:9: "of gold. And he overlaid the upper chambers with gold."
2 Chronicles 3:10: "cherubims of image work, and overlaid them with gold."
2 Chronicles 4:7: "ten candlesticks of gold according to their form, and set them in the temple, five"
2 Chronicles 4:8: "on the left. And he made basins of gold."
2 Chronicles 4:19: "that were for the house of God, the golden altar whereon the shewbread"
2 Chronicles 4:20: "before the oracle, of pure gold;"
2 Chronicles 4:21: "And the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs, made he of gold, and that perfect gold;"
2 Chronicles 4:21: "made he of gold, and that perfect gold;"
2 Chronicles 4:22: "and the spoons, and the censers, of pure gold: and the entry of the house, the inner doors"
2 Chronicles 4:22: "place, and the doors of the house of the temple, were of gold."
2 Chronicles 5:1: "his father had dedicated; and the silver, and the gold, and all the instruments, put he among the treasures"
2 Chronicles 8:18: "four hundred and fifty talents of gold, and brought them to king"
2 Chronicles 9:1: "and camels that bore spices, and gold in abundance, and precious stones: and when she was come"
2 Chronicles 9:9: "a hundred and twenty talents of gold, and of spices great abundance, and precious"
2 Chronicles 9:10: "of Solomon, which brought gold from Ophir, brought"
2 Chronicles 9:13: "Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was"
2 Chronicles 9:13: "and six talents of gold;"
2 Chronicles 9:14: "the kings of Arabia and governors of the country brought gold and silver to Solomon."
2 Chronicles 9:15: "two hundred targets of beaten gold: six hundred shekels of beaten"
2 Chronicles 9:15: "six hundred shekels of beaten gold went to one target."
2 Chronicles 9:16: "hundred shields made he of beaten gold: three hundred shekels of gold went"
2 Chronicles 9:16: "gold: three hundred shekels of gold went to shield."
2 Chronicles 9:17: "of ivory, and overlaid it with pure gold."
2 Chronicles 9:18: "steps to the throne, with a footstool of gold, which were fastened to the throne, and stays on each side"
2 Chronicles 9:20: "vessels of king Solomon were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest"
2 Chronicles 9:20: "of the forest were of pure gold: none were of silver; it was not any thing accounted"
2 Chronicles 9:21: "the ships of Tarshish bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks."
2 Chronicles 9:24: "vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and raiment, harness, horses,"
2 Chronicles 12:9: "he carried away also the shields of gold which Solomon had made."
2 Chronicles 13:8: "multitude, and there are with you golden calves, which Jeroboam made"
2 Chronicles 13:11: "the shewbread also set they in order upon the pure and the candlestick of gold with the lamps"
2 Chronicles 15:18: "had dedicated, and that he himself had dedicated, silver, and gold, and vessels."
2 Chronicles 16:2: "Then Asa brought out silver and gold out of the treasures of the house of the LORD"
2 Chronicles 16:3: "behold, I have sent thee silver and gold; go, thy league with"
2 Chronicles 21:3: "them great gifts of silver, and of gold, and of precious things, with fenced cities"
2 Chronicles 24:14: "and to offer withal, and spoons, and vessels of gold and silver. And they offered burnt offerings"
2 Chronicles 25:24: "And he took all the gold and the silver, and all the vessels that were found in the house"
2 Chronicles 32:27: "and he made himself treasuries for silver, and for gold, stones, and for spices, and for shields,"
2 Chronicles 36:3: "talents of silver of gold."
Ezra 1:4: "let the men of his place help and with gold, and with goods, and with beasts, beside"
Ezra 1:6: "their hands with vessels of silver, with gold, with goods, and with beasts, and with precious things,"
Ezra 1:9: "is the number of them: thirty chargers of gold, a thousand chargers of silver, nine"
Ezra 1:10: "Thirty basins of gold, silver basins of a second sort four hundred"









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