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:
Ezra 1:11: "All the vessels of gold and of silver were five thousand and four hundred."
Ezra 2:69: "threescore and one thousand drams of gold, and five thousand"
Ezra 8:25: "And weighed unto them the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, even the offering of the house of our God,"
Ezra 8:26: "vessels talents, and of gold a hundred talents;"
Ezra 8:27: "Also twenty basins of gold, of a thousand drams; and two vessels of fine"
Ezra 8:27: "of fine copper, precious as gold."
Ezra 8:28: "the vessels are holy also; and the silver and the gold are a freewill offering God of your fathers."
Ezra 8:30: "and the Levites the weight of the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, to bring them to Jerusalem unto the house"
Ezra 8:33: "Now on the fourth day was the silver and the gold and the vessels weighed in the house of our God"
Nehemiah 7:70: "gave to the treasure a thousand drams of gold, fifty basins, five"
Nehemiah 7:71: "to the treasure of the work twenty thousand drams of gold, and two thousand and two hundred"
Nehemiah 7:72: "was twenty thousand drams of gold, and two thousand pound and threescore"
Esther 1:6: "of marble: the beds were of gold and silver, upon a pavement of red,"
Esther 1:7: "And they gave them drink in vessels of gold, (the vessels being diverse one from another,) and royal"
Esther 4:11: "such to whom the king shall hold out the golden scepter, that he may live:"
Esther 5:2: "held out to Esther the golden scepter that was in his hand. So Esther"
Esther 8:4: "Then the king held out the golden scepter toward Esther. So Esther arose,"
Esther 8:15: "of blue and white, and with a great crown of gold, and with a garment of fine linen and purple:"
Job 3:15: "Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:"
Job 23:10: "that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold."
Job 28:1: "a vein for the silver, and a place for gold where they fine"
Job 28:6: "of it are the place of sapphires: and it hath dust of gold."
Job 28:15: "It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed"
Job 28:17: " The gold and the crystal cannot equal it: and the exchange of it shall not be for jewels of fine gold."
Job 31:24: "If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence;"
Job 37:22: " Fair weather cometh out of the north: with God is terrible majesty."
Job 42:11: "him a piece of money, and every one an earring of gold."
Psalms 19:10: "More to be desired are they than gold, are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey"
Psalms 45:13: "within: her clothing is of wrought gold."
Psalms 72:15: "And he shall live, and to him shall be given of the gold of the gold of Sheba: prayer also shall be made for him continually;"
Psalms 105:37: "He brought them forth also with silver and gold: and there was not one feeble person among their tribes."
Psalms 115:4: "Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands."
Psalms 119:72: "of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver."
Psalms 119:127: "Therefore I love thy commandments above gold; above gold; yea, above fine gold."
Psalms 135:15: "The idols of the heathen are silver and gold, the work of men's hands."
Proverbs 11:22: "As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion."
Proverbs 17:3: "The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold: but the LORD trieth the hearts."
Proverbs 20:15: "There is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel."
Proverbs 22:1: "riches, and loving favor rather than silver and gold. and gold."
Proverbs 25:11: "fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver."
Proverbs 25:12: "As an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover upon an obedient"
Proverbs 27:21: "As the refining pot for silver, and the furnace for gold; so is a man to his praise."
Ecclesiastes 2:8: "I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces: I got"
Ecclesiastes 12:6: "ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher"
Song of Solomon 1:11: "We will make thee borders of gold with studs of silver."
Song of Solomon 3:10: "the pillars thereof of silver, the bottom thereof of gold, the covering of it of purple, the midst thereof being paved"
Song of Solomon 5:14: "His hands are as gold rings set with the beryl: his belly is as bright ivory"
Isaiah 2:7: "Their land also is full of silver and gold, neither is there any end of their treasures; their land"
Isaiah 2:20: "his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which each one for himself to worship, to the moles"
Isaiah 13:17: "shall not regard silver; and as for gold, delight"
