zahav · gold

What it means

zahav (זָהָב) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “gold”.

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. The yellow precious metal, the most valuable of all.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

Gold. BDB adds that, figuratively, it names something golden in color.

• The gold of a land Genesis 2:11Genesis 2:12
• The golden calf Exodus 32:24
• Overlaying the objects of the sanctuary with gold Exodus 25:11
• Solomon's wealth 1 Kings 10:14

How we translate it

“Gold” 377 times, “golden” 12, with no other variation. The qualities are told apart as in the Hebrew: זָהָב טָהוֹר, “pure gold”; זָהָב סָגוּר, “fine gold”. For covering with gold it uses “overlay”.

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• gold ×377
• golden ×12

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×9
• Exodus×105
• Leviticus×1
• Numbers×24
• Deuteronomy×4
• Joshua×5
• Judges×3
• 1 Samuel×7
• 2 Samuel×6
• 1 Kings×44
• 2 Kings×15
• 1 Chronicles×24
• 2 Chronicles×49
• Ezra×13
• Nehemiah×3
• Esther×6
• Job×8
• Psalms×8
• Proverbs×7
• Ecclesiastes×2
• Song of Songs×3
• Isaiah×11
• Jeremiah×6
• Lamentations×1
• Ezekiel×8
• Daniel×3
• Hosea×2
• Joel×1
• Nahum×1
• Habakkuk×1
• Zephaniah×1
• Haggai×1
• Zechariah×6
• Malachi×1

• Genesis 2:11

  The name of the first is Pishon; it is the one that goes around the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold.

• Genesis 2:12

  And the gold of that land is good; bdellium and onyx stone are there.

• Genesis 13:2

  Abram was very rich in livestock, in silver, and in gold.

• Genesis 24:22

  When the camels had finished drinking, the man took a gold ring of half a shekel in weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels of gold in weight,

• Genesis 24:35

  YHWH has blessed my lord greatly, and he has become great. He has given him sheep and cattle, silver and gold, male slaves and female slaves, camels and donkeys.

• Genesis 24:53

  The servant brought out objects of silver and objects of gold, and garments, and gave them to Rebekah; and costly gifts he gave to her brother and to her mother.

• Genesis 41:42

  Then Pharaoh took off his signet ring from his hand and put it on the hand of Joseph; he clothed him in garments of fine linen and put a chain of gold around his neck.

• Genesis 44:8

  Look, the silver that we found in the mouth of our bags we brought back to you from the land of Canaan. How then could we steal from the house of your lord silver or gold?

• Exodus 3:22

  Each woman shall ask of her neighbor and of the woman who resides in her house articles of silver and articles of gold, and clothing, and you shall put them on your sons and on your daughters; and so you shall plunder the Egyptians.”

• Exodus 11:2

  Speak now in the hearing of the people, and let them ask, each man from his neighbor and each woman from her neighbor, articles of silver and articles of gold.”

• Exodus 12:35

  The sons of Israel did according to the word of Moses: they asked of the Egyptians articles of silver, articles of gold, and clothing.

• Exodus 20:23

  You shall not make beside me gods of silver, and gods of gold you shall not make for yourselves.

• Exodus 25:3

  And this is the contribution that you shall take from them: gold, silver, and bronze;

• Exodus 25:11

  You shall overlay it with pure gold; inside and outside you shall overlay it, and you shall make on it a molding of gold all around.

• Exodus 25:12

  You shall cast for it four rings of gold and put them on its four feet, two rings on the one side of it and two rings on the other side of it.

• Exodus 25:13

  You shall make poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold.

• Exodus 25:17

  You shall make a cover of expiation of pure gold: two cubits and a half its length and a cubit and a half its width.

• Exodus 25:18

  You shall make two cherubim of gold; of hammered work you shall make them, at the two ends of the cover of expiation.

• Exodus 25:24

  You shall overlay it with pure gold and make for it a molding of gold all around.

• Exodus 25:25

  You shall make for it a rim a handbreadth wide all around, and you shall make a molding of gold for its rim all around.

• Exodus 25:26

  You shall make for it four rings of gold and put the rings on the four corners that are at its four feet.

• Exodus 25:28

  You shall make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold, and the table shall be carried with them.

• Exodus 25:29

  You shall make its plates, its spoons, its jars, and its bowls, with which drink offerings are poured; of pure gold you shall make them.

• Exodus 25:31

  You shall make a lampstand of pure gold; of hammered work the lampstand shall be made: its base and its shaft, its cups, its knobs, and its flowers shall be of one piece with it.

• Exodus 25:36

  Their knobs and their branches shall be of one piece with it, all of it one hammered work of pure gold.

• Exodus 25:38

  Its snuffers and its trays shall be of pure gold.

• Exodus 25:39

  Of a talent of pure gold it shall be made, it, with all these utensils.

• Exodus 26:6

  You shall make fifty clasps of gold and join the curtains one to another with the clasps, so that the dwelling shall be one whole.

• Exodus 26:29

  You shall overlay the boards with gold and make their rings of gold as holders for the bars, and you shall overlay the bars with gold.

• Exodus 26:32

  You shall hang it on four pillars of acacia overlaid with gold, their hooks of gold, on four bases of silver.

• Exodus 26:37

  You shall make for the screen five pillars of acacia and overlay them with gold; their hooks shall be of gold, and you shall cast for them five bases of bronze.

• Exodus 28:5

  They shall take the gold, the blue, the purple, the scarlet yarn, and the fine linen.

• Exodus 28:6

  They shall make the ephod of gold, blue, purple, scarlet yarn, and fine twisted linen, the work of a skilled craftsman.

• Exodus 28:8

  And the woven band of its ephod, which is on it, shall be of the same workmanship, of one piece with it: of gold, blue, purple, scarlet yarn, and fine twisted linen.

• Exodus 28:11

  As the work of a stonecutter, with engravings of a signet, you shall engrave the two stones with the names of the sons of Israel; mounted in settings of gold you shall make them.

• Exodus 28:13

  You shall make settings of gold,

• Exodus 28:14

  and two chains of pure gold; twisted you shall make them, of corded work, and you shall fasten the corded chains to the settings.

• Exodus 28:15

  You shall make a breastpiece of judgment, the work of a skilled craftsman; like the work of the ephod you shall make it: of gold, blue, purple, scarlet yarn, and fine twisted linen you shall make it.

• Exodus 28:20

  and the fourth row, chrysolite, onyx, and jasper. They shall be set in gold in their mountings.

• Exodus 28:22

  You shall make on the breastpiece twisted chains, of corded work, of pure gold.

And 349 more times.