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title: כֶּתֶם — gold · The Tanakh dictionary
description: כֶּתֶם (3800), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 9 times: gold. BDB 1906: n.m. gold. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# כֶּתֶם

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«כֶּתֶם» in the Tanakh 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:** 9 times · **Key:** 3800 · **BDB:** כֶּ֫תֶם

### Glosses

gold (6); \[is\].gold (1); of.gold (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

gold [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3800/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

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

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**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).

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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)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «כֶּתֶם» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3800/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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

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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.

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

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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.

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