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title: דְּהַב — gold · The Biblical Aramaic dictionary
description: דְּהַב (lemma:דְּהַב), a word of Biblical Aramaic, used 23 times: gold. BDB 1906: n.m. gold. With 2 verses in Aramaic, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# דְּהַב

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«דְּהַב» in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary: **gold** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 23 times · **Key:** lemma:דְּהַב · **BDB:** דְּהַב

### Glosses

of.(the) (9); (the) (7); gold (4)

### Meaning (OSHB)

gold [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1491/lemma_3a_5d3_5b0_5bc_5d4_5b7_5d1/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. gold [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1491/lemma_3a_5d3_5b0_5bc_5d4_5b7_5d1/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Dn 2:32 gold (so 𝔗 Syriac; BH זָהֶב);—abs. ד׳ Dn 2:32 +, דְּהַ֑ב Ezr 7:15; emph. דַּהֲבָה 5:14; 6:5; 7:18, -בָא Dn 2:35 + 15 times Dn.

### Jastrow 1903

דְּהַב: gold [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1491/lemma_3a_5d3_5b0_5bc_5d4_5b7_5d1/#m3)

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**The whole Jastrow entry:** , gold. Targ. Gen. II, 11; a. e.—Y. B. Mets. II, 8ᶜ bot. קופד דד׳ a golden piece resembling meat; Tam. 32ᵃ; a. fr.—B. Mets. 70ᵃ; B. Bath. 166ᵃ ד׳ פריכא broken pieces of gold (for the melting pot). Ib. 165ᵇ ד׳ אין פחות וכ׳ if a note has the word ‘gold’ (without any further definition), it means no less than a Denar in gold (v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note).

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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 (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates); Jastrow: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (3 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «דְּהַב» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1491/lemma_3a_5d3_5b0_5bc_5d4_5b7_5d1/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Ezra 7:15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.7.15/)

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וּלְהֵיבָלָ֖ה כְּסַ֣ף וּדְהַ֑ב דִּֽי־מַלְכָּ֣א וְיָעֲט֗וֹהִי הִתְנַדַּ֙בוּ֙ לֶאֱלָ֣הּ יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל דִּ֥י בִֽירוּשְׁלֶ֖ם מִשְׁכְּנֵֽהּ׃

*Word for word:* and to carry silver and gold which the king and counselors his they.have.offered.freely to the.God of.Israel who \[is\].in Jerusalem abode his

*JPS 1917:* and to carry the silver and gold, which the king and his counsellors have freely offered unto the God of Israel, whose habitation is in Jerusalem,

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[Daniel 5:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.5.4/)

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אִשְׁתִּ֖יו חַמְרָ֑א וְ֠שַׁבַּחוּ לֵֽאלָהֵ֞י דַּהֲבָ֧א וְכַסְפָּ֛א נְחָשָׁ֥א פַרְזְלָ֖א אָעָ֥א וְאַבְנָֽא׃

*Word for word:* they.drank the wine and they.praised (et).the gods of.(the) gold and (the) silver (the) bronze (the) iron (the) wood and (the) stone

*JPS 1917:* They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.

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