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# בֶּצֶר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1220

**precious ore** — used 2 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

precious ore [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1220/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בֶּ֫צֶר: precious ore ingot ring-gold [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1220/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] precious ore (AW105 Thes), ingot \> ring-gold HoffmZA 1887, 48 f. Hiob 70 (AW Thes ore as that broken off; Hoffm comp. Arabic بَظَرٌ ring, Heb. בָּצְרָה enclosure, Talm בטרא finger-measure, etc.; a √ ii. בצר must then be assumed, = بظر )—בָּ֑צֶר Jb 22:24 (‖ אוֹפִיר q.v.); בְּצָרֶיךָ v 25 (‖ כֶּסֶף) possibly also בִּצְרֵי כָּ֑סֶף ψ 68:31 for MT בְּרַצֵּי־כ׳, cf. Checrit. n. NesJBL, 1891, 151.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: gold (1); gold(s) (1).

## In the verses

[Job 22:24](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.22.24/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.22.24/#tree)

וְשִׁית־עַל־עָפָ֥ר בָּ֑צֶר וּבְצ֖וּר נְחָלִ֣ים אוֹפִֽיר׃

*Word for word:* and put on \[the\].dust gold and among.\[the\] rock\[s\] of.wadis gold.of.Ophir

*JPS 1917:* And lay thy treasure in the dust, and the gold of Ophir among the stones of the brooks;

[Job 22:25](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.22.25/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.22.25/#tree)

וְהָיָ֣ה שַׁדַּ֣י בְּצָרֶ֑יךָ וְכֶ֖סֶף תּוֹעָפ֣וֹת לָֽךְ׃

*Word for word:* and he.will.be \[the\].Almighty gold(s) your and silver of.heaps for you

*JPS 1917:* And the Almighty be thy treasure, and precious silver unto thee;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1220.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1220/): 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).