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דְּהַב dehav
Hebrew word for “gold” · Strong’s H1722 · used 23 times in 23 verses
Meaning
gold; Aramaic of za.hav (זָהָב "gold" H2091)
How it is translated
Glosses given for dehav in context, with how often each is used:
- gold 20
- gold the 3
Where it is used
Chapters where it is used most
Daniel 3 (7), Daniel 5 (7), Daniel 2 (4), Ezra 7 (3), Ezra 5 (1), Ezra 6 (1)
Forms
- דהבא 13
- ודהבא 3
- דהבה 2
- ודהב 2
- דהב 2
- ודהבה 1
Words used with it
Words that share verses with dehav more often than their overall frequency would suggest:
- דִּי di “that” 22
- כְּסַף kesaph “silver” 11
- אֱלָהּ elah “god” 12
- צְלֵם tselem “image” 9
- מֶלֶךְ melekh “king” 12
- כֹּל kol “all” 8
- נְבוּכַדְרֶאצַּר nevukhadnetstsar “Nebuchadnezzar” 7
- סְגִד segid “to do homage” 6
- בָּבֶל bavel “Babylon” 6
- יְרוּשָׁלִַם yerushalem “Jerusalem” 6
- מָאן man “utensil” 5
- קוּם qum “to stand” 6
Key verses
The verses using dehav that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):
- Ezra 5:14 — And the vessels also of gold and silver of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took out of the temple that was in Jerusalem, and brought them into the…
- Ezra 7:15 — And to carry the silver and gold, which the king and his counsellors have freely offered unto the God of Israel, whose habitation is in Jerusalem,
- Daniel 2:35 — Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshingfloors; and the…
- Daniel 2:45 — Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and…
- Daniel 3:1 — Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof six cubits: he set it up in the plain of Dura, in…
- Daniel 3:10 — Thou, O king, hast made a decree, that every man that shall hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of…
- Daniel 3:18 — But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up.
- Daniel 5:2 — Belshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which was…
- Daniel 5:4 — They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.
- Daniel 5:7 — The king cried aloud to bring in the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers. And the king spake, and said to the wise men of Babylon, Whosoever shall…
- Daniel 5:16 — And I have heard of thee, that thou canst make interpretations, and dissolve doubts: now if thou canst read the writing, and make known to me the…
- Daniel 5:23 — But hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou, and thy lords, thy wives, and thy…
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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.