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title: בֶּצֶר — precious ore · The Tanakh dictionary
description: בֶּצֶר (1220), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: precious ore. BDB 1906: precious ore ingot ring-gold. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# בֶּצֶר

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«בֶּצֶר» in the Tanakh dictionary: **precious ore** — 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:** 2 times · **Key:** 1220 · **BDB:** בֶּ֫צֶר

### Glosses

gold (1); gold(s) (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

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

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

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

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**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.

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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)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «בֶּצֶר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1220/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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

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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;

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

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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;

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