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 →

Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כֶּ֫תֶם: n.m. gold tree →

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 · 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 · 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

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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).

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