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# בְּדִיל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H913

**alloy** — used 5 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

alloy [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/913/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בְּדִיל: alloy, tin, dross [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/913/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] alloy, tin, dross (orig. that which is separated from precious metal; cf. Plin. Hist. Nat. xxiv. 16, xxxiii. 9)—בּ׳ abs. Nu 31:22 + 4 times; Pl. sf. בְּדִילָ֑יִךְ Is 1:25;— alloy, Is 1:25 fig. of evil of Jerusalem, which י׳ will remove (הֵסִיר; ‖ סִגָ֑יִךְ). tin (plumbum album) Nu 31:22 (P; + זָהָב, כֶּסֶף, נְחשֶׁת, בַּרְזֶל, עֹפָ֑רֶת); fig. of Isr. Ez 22:18 (+ נְחשֶׁת, בַּרְזֶל, עוֹפֶרֶת); in simile v 20 (+ id. + כֶּסֶף); as article of commerce brought to Tyre from Tarashish Ez 27:12 (+ כֶּסֶף, בַּרְזֶל, עוֹפֶרֶת). plummet, הָאֶבֶן הַבְּדִיל (appos.) Zc 4:10.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: tin (5).

## In the verses

[Ezekiel 27:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.27.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.27.12/#tree)

תַּרְשִׁ֥ישׁ סֹחַרְתֵּ֖ךְ מֵרֹ֣ב כָּל־ה֑וֹן בְּכֶ֤סֶף בַּרְזֶל֙ בְּדִ֣יל וְעוֹפֶ֔רֶת נָתְנ֖וּ עִזְבוֹנָֽיִךְ׃

*Word for word:* Tarshish \[was\].your trader from.\[the\] abundance of.all wealth for silver iron tin and lead they.exchanged wares your

*JPS 1917:* Tarshish was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of all kinds of riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded for thy wares.

[Numbers 31:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.31.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.31.22/#tree)

אַ֥ךְ אֶת־הַזָּהָ֖ב וְאֶת־הַכָּ֑סֶף אֶֽת־הַנְּחֹ֙שֶׁת֙ אֶת־הַבַּרְזֶ֔ל אֶֽת־הַבְּדִ֖יל וְאֶת־הָעֹפָֽרֶת׃

*Word for word:* only (et) the gold and (et) the silver (et) the bronze (et) the iron (et) the tin and (et) the lead

*JPS 1917:* Howbeit the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead,

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/913.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/913/): 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).