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# חָרוּץ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2742

**gold** — used 6 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

gold [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2742/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חָרוּץ⁵: n.m. gold [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2742/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Pr 8:10 gold, poet. (Ph. חרץ, v. DrSm xxviii.; Assyrian ḫurâṣu)—חָרוּץ ψ 68:14 + 5 times; gold, always ‖ כֶּסֶף; Zc 9:3, of dove’s wings ψ 68:14 בִּירַקְרַק ח׳; elsewhere in comparison with value of wisdom, etc. Pr 3:14; 8:10 (ח׳ נִבְחָר) v 19; 16:16.

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 (8 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (7 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: than gold (4); gold (1); of gold (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 8:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.8.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.8.10/#tree)

קְחֽוּ־מוּסָרִ֥י וְאַל־כָּ֑סֶף וְ֝דַ֗עַת מֵחָר֥וּץ נִבְחָֽר׃

*Word for word:* take discipline my and not silver and knowledge more than.gold chosen

*JPS 1917:* Receive my instruction, and not silver, and knowledge rather than choice gold.

[Proverbs 3:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.3.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.3.14/#tree)

כִּ֤י ט֣וֹב סַ֭חְרָהּ מִסְּחַר־כָּ֑סֶף וּ֝מֵחָר֗וּץ תְּבוּאָתָֽהּ׃

*Word for word:* (dm) \[is\].good profit her.trading more than.\[the\].trading.profit of.silver and more than.gold gain her

*JPS 1917:* For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2742/): 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).