oferet · lead

What it means

oferet (עוֹפֶרֶת) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “lead”.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A grey metal, heavy and soft, that sinks in water and melts in the furnace.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Where it appears

• Exodus×1
• Numbers×1
• Job×1
• Jeremiah×1
• Ezekiel×3
• Zechariah×2

• Exodus 15:10

  You blew with your wind; the sea covered them; they sank like lead in the mighty waters.

• Numbers 31:22

  Only the gold and the silver, the bronze, the iron, the tin, and the lead,

• Job 19:24

  that with a stylus of iron and lead forever in the rock they were carved.

• Jeremiah 6:29

  The bellows blow fiercely; by the fire the lead is consumed; in vain the refining goes on and on, and the evil are not drawn off.

• Ezekiel 22:18

  “Son of man, the house of Israel has become to me dross; all of them are bronze and tin and iron and lead in the midst of the furnace; dross of silver they are.”

• Ezekiel 22:20

  As one gathers silver and bronze and iron and lead and tin into the midst of the furnace, to blow fire on it to melt it, so I will gather you in my anger and in my fury, and I will leave you and melt you.

• Ezekiel 27:12

  Tarshish was your merchant because of the abundance of all wealth; with silver, iron, tin, and lead they paid for your wares.

• Zechariah 5:7

  And look, a round cover of lead was lifted up, and this was a woman sitting in the midst of the ephah.

• Zechariah 5:8

  And he said, “This is wickedness.” And he threw her into the midst of the ephah, and threw the stone of lead on its mouth.