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# כְּסַף

Biblical Aramaic

**silver** — used 13 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

silver [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1499/lemma_3a_5db_5b0_5bc_5e1_5b7_5e3/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כְּסַף: n.m. silver [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1499/lemma_3a_5db_5b0_5bc_5e1_5b7_5e3/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Ezr 7:17 silver (v. BH);—abs. כ׳ Ezr 7:15 +, כְּסֲ֑ף Dn 2:32; emph. כַּסְפָּא v 35 +;— as material Dn 2:32, 35, 45; 5:2, 4, 23 Ezr 5:14; 6:5. as money or its equivalent Ezr 7:17, v 15, 16, 18, 22.

### Jastrow 1903

כְּסַף II

**The whole Jastrow entry:** Targ. Gen. XX, 16. Ib. XLIV, 8; a. fr.—Y. Kidd. I, 58ᵈ יַקִּירָא. Y. Bicc. III, 65ᵈ top מתמני בכ׳ appointed to office for money. B. Kam. 87ᵃ אפחתה מכַּסְפָּהּ Ms. M. he lessened her value; a. fr.—Pl. כַּסְפַּיָּיא. Targ. Gen. XLII, 25; 35.—Y. Bicc. l. c. לא בכ׳ אתמני was it not through gifts of money that he was appointed?

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 13 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 not compared, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: (the) (4); silver (3); the (3).

## 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.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5db_5b0_5bc_5e1_5b7_5e3.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1499/lemma_3a_5db_5b0_5bc_5e1_5b7_5e3/): 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).