כְּסַף kesaph

Hebrew word for “silver” · Strong’s H3702 · used 13 times in 13 verses

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Meaning

1) silver; 1a) as metal; 1b) as money

How it is translated

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

• silver 9
• silver the 4

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Ezra 7 (5), Daniel 2 (3), Daniel 5 (3), Ezra 5 (1), Ezra 6 (1)

Forms

• וכספא 4
• כסף 4
• כספא 4
• בכספא 1

Words used with it

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

• דְּהַב dehav “gold” 11
• דִּי di “that” 12
• אֱלָהּ elah “god” 9
• יְרוּשָׁלִַם yerushalem “Jerusalem” 6
• נְחָשׁ nechash “bronze” 5
• חֲמַר chamar “wine” 4
• מָאן man “utensil” 4
• בַּיִת bayit “house” 5
• אֶבֶן even “stone” 4
• פַּרְזֶל parzel “iron” 4
• יְבַל yeval “to bring” 3
• שְׁתָה shetah “to drink” 3

Key verses

The verses using kesaph 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 6:5 — And also let the golden and silver vessels of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took forth out of the temple which is at Jerusalem, and brought unto…
• 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,
• Ezra 7:16 — And all the silver and gold that thou canst find in all the province of Babylon, with the freewill offering of the people, and of the priests, offering…
• Ezra 7:17 — That thou mayest buy speedily with this money bullocks, rams, lambs, with their meat offerings and their drink offerings, and offer them upon the altar of the…
• Ezra 7:22 — Unto an hundred talents of silver, and to an hundred measures of wheat, and to an hundred baths of wine, and to an hundred baths of oil, and salt without…
• Daniel 2:32 — This image’s head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass,
• 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 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 5:23 — 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.