כֶּסֶף keseph

Hebrew word for “silver” · Strong’s H3701 · used 403 times in 343 verses

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Meaning

: money/payment/silver; 1) silver, money; 1a) silver; 1a1) as metal; 1a2) as ornament; 1a3) as colour; 1b) money, shekels, talents

Senses in the lexicon

• silver: money (391)
• silver: price (12)

How it is translated

Glosses given for keseph in context, with how often each is used:

• silver 319
• money 71
• will be silver 4
• more than silver 3
• silvers 2
• like silver 2
• some of silver 1
• some of the silver 1

Where it is used

Also in 24 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Numbers 7 (14), 2 Kings 12 (9), Exodus 38 (7), Genesis 43 (6), Leviticus 27 (6), Exodus 21 (5), 1 Kings 10 (5), 1 Chronicles 29 (5), 2 Chronicles 9 (5), Ezra 1 (5)

Forms

• כסף 207
• הכסף 73
• וכסף 32
• בכסף 28
• כספו 9
• והכסף 9
• לכסף 8
• כספך 6
• ובכסף 5
• מכסף 5

Words used with it

Words that share verses with keseph more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• זָהָב zahav “gold” 139
• שֶׁקֶל sheqel “shekel” 29
• כְּלִי keli “article/utensil” 39
• מֵאָה meah “hundred” 43
• נְחֹשֶׁת nechoshet “bronze” 27
• מִשְׁקָל mishqal “weight” 20
• כִּכָּר kikkar “talent” 20
• מִזְרָק mizraq “bowl” 18
• לָקַח laqach “to take” 36
• קֹדֶשׁ qodesh “holiness” 27
• אֶלֶף eleph “thousand” 27
• אֶדֶן eden “socket” 17

Key verses

The verses using keseph that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Leviticus 5:15 — If a soul commit a trespass, and sin through ignorance, in the holy things of the LORD; then he shall bring for his trespass unto the LORD a ram without…
• Joshua 7:21 — When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them,…
• Nehemiah 5:15 — But the former governors that had been before me were chargeable unto the people, and had taken of them bread and wine, beside forty shekels of silver; yea,…
• Psalms 115:4 — Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands.
• Isaiah 55:1 — Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without…
• Isaiah 55:2 — Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is…
• Isaiah 60:9 — Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, unto the name of the…
• Hosea 2:8 — For she did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold, which they prepared for Baal.
• Micah 3:11 — The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and…
• Zephaniah 1:18 — Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD’s wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his…
• Zechariah 13:9 — And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name,…
• Malachi 3:3 — And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the…

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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.