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# כֶּתֶם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3800

**gold** — used 9 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/1499/3800/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כֶּ֫תֶם: n.m. gold [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3800/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. La 4:1 gold, poet. and late (perhaps loan-word in Heb.; Ph. has n.pr.m. כתם; Sab. כתם HalEt.Sab. 190; kaθȧmā as loan-wd. in Egyptian, Bondi 80 f.);—כ׳ abs. Jb 28:19 + 3 times, כָּ֑תֶם Pr 25:12; cstr. כֶּתֶם Is 13:12 + 3 times;—כ׳ אוֹפִיר Is 13:12 gold of Ophir (‖ פָּ֑ז), so Jb 28:16 ψ 45:10; כ׳ אוּפָ֑ז Dn 10:5 (read perhaps אוֹפִיר for אוּפָז q.v.); כ׳ alone Jb 31:24 (‖ זָהָב), חֲלִי־כ׳ Pr 25:12 ornament of gold (‖ נֶזֶם זָהָב), כ׳ פָּ֑ז Ct 5:11; כ׳ טָהוֹר Jb 28:19; הַכּ׳ הַטּוֹב La 4:1 (‖ זָהָב).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 9 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, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: gold (6); \[is\] gold (1); of gold (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 13:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.13.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.13.12/#tree)

אוֹקִ֥יר אֱנ֖וֹשׁ מִפָּ֑ז וְאָדָ֖ם מִכֶּ֥תֶם אוֹפִֽיר׃

*Word for word:* I.will.make.precious humankind more than.pure.gold and humankind more than.(the).gold of.Ophir

*JPS 1917:* I will make man more rare than fine gold, even man than the pure gold of Ophir.

[Job 28:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.28.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.28.16/#tree)

לֹֽא־תְ֭סֻלֶּה בְּכֶ֣תֶם אוֹפִ֑יר בְּשֹׁ֖הַם יָקָ֣ר וְסַפִּֽיר׃

*Word for word:* not it.will.be.paid in.(the) gold of.Ophir in onyx precious and sapphire

*JPS 1917:* It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3800.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3800/): 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).