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title: בְּדִיל — alloy · The Tanakh dictionary
description: בְּדִיל (913), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 5 times: alloy. BDB 1906: alloy, tin, dross. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# בְּדִיל

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«בְּדִיל» in the Tanakh dictionary: **alloy** — 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:** 5 times · **Key:** 913 · **BDB:** בְּדִיל

### Glosses

tin (5)

### Meaning (OSHB)

alloy [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/913/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

alloy, tin, dross [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/913/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] alloy, tin, dross (orig. that which is separated from precious metal; cf. Plin. Hist. Nat. xxiv. 16, xxxiii. 9)—בּ׳ abs. Nu 31:22 + 4 times; Pl. sf. בְּדִילָ֑יִךְ Is 1:25;— alloy, Is 1:25 fig. of evil of Jerusalem, which י׳ will remove (הֵסִיר; ‖ סִגָ֑יִךְ). tin (plumbum album) Nu 31:22 (P; + זָהָב, כֶּסֶף, נְחשֶׁת, בַּרְזֶל, עֹפָ֑רֶת); fig. of Isr. Ez 22:18 (+ נְחשֶׁת, בַּרְזֶל, עוֹפֶרֶת); in simile v 20 (+ id. + כֶּסֶף); as article of commerce brought to Tyre from Tarashish Ez 27:12 (+ כֶּסֶף, בַּרְזֶל, עוֹפֶרֶת). plummet, הָאֶבֶן הַבְּדִיל (appos.) Zc 4:10.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 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, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «בְּדִיל» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/913/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Ezekiel 27:12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.27.12/)

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תַּרְשִׁ֥ישׁ סֹחַרְתֵּ֖ךְ מֵרֹ֣ב כָּל־ה֑וֹן בְּכֶ֤סֶף בַּרְזֶל֙ בְּדִ֣יל וְעוֹפֶ֔רֶת נָתְנ֖וּ עִזְבוֹנָֽיִךְ׃

*Word for word:* Tarshish \[was\].your trader from.\[the\] abundance of.all wealth for silver iron tin and lead they.exchanged wares your

*JPS 1917:* Tarshish was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of all kinds of riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded for thy wares.

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[Numbers 31:22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.31.22/)

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אַ֥ךְ אֶת־הַזָּהָ֖ב וְאֶת־הַכָּ֑סֶף אֶֽת־הַנְּחֹ֙שֶׁת֙ אֶת־הַבַּרְזֶ֔ל אֶֽת־הַבְּדִ֖יל וְאֶת־הָעֹפָֽרֶת׃

*Word for word:* only (et) the gold and (et) the silver (et) the bronze (et) the iron (et) the tin and (et) the lead

*JPS 1917:* Howbeit the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead,

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