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# דְּהַב

Biblical Aramaic

**gold** — used 23 times in the Aramaic chapters of the Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

gold [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1491/lemma_3a_5d3_5b0_5bc_5d4_5b7_5d1/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

דְּהַב: n.m. gold [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1491/lemma_3a_5d3_5b0_5bc_5d4_5b7_5d1/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Dn 2:32 gold (so 𝔗 Syriac; BH זָהֶב);—abs. ד׳ Dn 2:32 +, דְּהַ֑ב Ezr 7:15; emph. דַּהֲבָה 5:14; 6:5; 7:18, -בָא Dn 2:35 + 15 times Dn.

### Jastrow 1903

דְּהַב: gold [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1491/lemma_3a_5d3_5b0_5bc_5d4_5b7_5d1/#m3)

**The whole Jastrow entry:** , gold. Targ. Gen. II, 11; a. e.—Y. B. Mets. II, 8ᶜ bot. קופד דד׳ a golden piece resembling meat; Tam. 32ᵃ; a. fr.—B. Mets. 70ᵃ; B. Bath. 166ᵃ ד׳ פריכא broken pieces of gold (for the melting pot). Ib. 165ᵇ ד׳ אין פחות וכ׳ if a note has the word ‘gold’ (without any further definition), it means no less than a Denar in gold (v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates); Jastrow: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of (the) (9); (the) (7); gold (4).

## In the verses

[Ezra 7:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.7.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.7.15/#tree)

וּלְהֵיבָלָ֖ה כְּסַ֣ף וּדְהַ֑ב דִּֽי־מַלְכָּ֣א וְיָעֲט֗וֹהִי הִתְנַדַּ֙בוּ֙ לֶאֱלָ֣הּ יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל דִּ֥י בִֽירוּשְׁלֶ֖ם מִשְׁכְּנֵֽהּ׃

*Word for word:* and to carry silver and gold which the king and counselors his they.have.offered.freely to the.God of.Israel who \[is\].in Jerusalem abode his

*JPS 1917:* 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 5:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.5.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.5.4/#tree)

אִשְׁתִּ֖יו חַמְרָ֑א וְ֠שַׁבַּחוּ לֵֽאלָהֵ֞י דַּהֲבָ֧א וְכַסְפָּ֛א נְחָשָׁ֥א פַרְזְלָ֖א אָעָ֥א וְאַבְנָֽא׃

*Word for word:* they.drank the wine and they.praised (et).the gods of.(the) gold and (the) silver (the) bronze (the) iron (the) wood and (the) stone

*JPS 1917:* They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.

## In Targum Onkelos

Number 84 of the commonest words of Targum Onkelos, the Aramaic translation of the Torah: used 74 times there, in the forms דִדְהַב (47); דְהַב (23); וּדְהַב (3); דִּדְהַב (1).

[Exodus 28:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.28.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.28.13/#tree) · Onkelos, then the Hebrew

וְתַעְבֵּד מְרַמְצָן דִדְהַב:

וְעָשִׂ֥יתָ מִשְׁבְּצֹ֖ת זָהָֽב׃

*Word for word:* and you.will.make filigree.settings of.gold

*JPS 1917:* And thou shalt make settings of gold;

[Exodus 25:38](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.25.38/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.25.38/#tree) · Onkelos, then the Hebrew

וְצִבְיְתָהָא וּמַחְתְּיָתָהָא דִדְהַב דְכֵי:

וּמַלְקָחֶ֥יהָ וּמַחְתֹּתֶ֖יהָ זָהָ֥ב טָהֽוֹר׃

*Word for word:* and tongs its and fire-pans its \[will.be\].gold pure

*JPS 1917:* And the tongs thereof, and the snuffdishes thereof, shall be of pure gold.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5d3_5b0_5bc_5d4_5b7_5d1.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1491/lemma_3a_5d3_5b0_5bc_5d4_5b7_5d1/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).