דְּהַב
de.hav (H2091)
gold
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# Gold (דְּהַב): A Hebrew Word Study The Hebrew word *dehav* denotes gold and appears 389 times throughout the biblical text, making it a frequently referenced material in Scripture. This high frequency of occurrence suggests that gold held considerable importance in ancient Israelite culture and religious practice. The straightforward definition—"gold"—indicates the word refers to the precious metal itself rather than metaphorical or abstract concepts, though the extensive biblical presence points to its multifaceted role in the society described in these texts. The sheer number of occurrences (389) across the biblical corpus indicates that gold functioned in multiple practical and symbolic contexts. It would have been used for jewelry, vessels, religious ornaments, and wealth accumulation, as befitted an ancient Near Eastern society. The consistent use of this single term across diverse biblical narratives—from accounts of kings and temples to descriptions of religious implements—suggests a stable, well-established vocabulary for discussing this material across different historical periods and literary genres represented in the Hebrew Bible. Without additional lexical data specifying contextual variations or metaphorical uses, the evidence indicates that *dehav* served as a straightforward, essential term for discussing a material central to ancient religious, economic, and aesthetic life. Its prevalence in the biblical text reflects gold's practical importance and its symbolic weight in the cultures and religious traditions that produced and preserved these scriptures.
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The name of the first is Pishon: it flows through the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;
and the gold of that land is good. Bdellium and onyx stone are also there.
As the camels had done drinking, the man took a golden ring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold,
Yahweh has blessed my master greatly. He has become great. Yahweh has given him flocks and herds, silver and gold, male servants and female servants, and camels and donkeys.
The servant brought out jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and clothing, and gave them to Rebekah. He also gave precious things to her brother and her mother.
Pharaoh took off his signet ring from his hand, and put it on Joseph’s hand, and arrayed him in robes of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck.
Behold, the money, which we found in our sacks’ mouths, we brought again to you out of the land of Canaan. How then should we steal silver or gold out of your lord’s house?
But every woman shall ask of her neighbor, and of her who visits her house, jewels of silver, jewels of gold, and clothing. You shall put them on your sons, and on your daughters. You shall plunder the Egyptians.”
Speak now in the ears of the people, and let every man ask of his neighbor, and every woman of her neighbor, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold.”
The children of Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they asked of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and clothing.
You shall most certainly not make gods of silver or gods of gold for yourselves to be alongside me.
This is the offering which you shall take from them: gold, silver, bronze,
You shall overlay it with pure gold. You shall overlay it inside and outside, and you shall make a gold molding around it.
You shall cast four rings of gold for it, and put them in its four feet. Two rings shall be on the one side of it, and two rings on the other side of it.
You shall make poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold.
You shall make a mercy seat of pure gold. Two and a half cubits shall be its length, and a cubit and a half its width.
You shall make two cherubim of hammered gold. You shall make them at the two ends of the mercy seat.
You shall make a rim of a hand width around it. You shall make a golden molding on its rim around it.
You shall make four rings of gold for it, and put the rings in the four corners that are on its four feet.
You shall make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold, that the table may be carried with them.
You shall make its dishes, its spoons, its ladles, and its bowls to pour out offerings with. You shall make them of pure gold.
“You shall make a lamp stand of pure gold. The lamp stand shall be made of hammered work. Its base, its shaft, its cups, its buds, and its flowers shall be of one piece with it.
Their buds and their branches shall be of one piece with it, all of it one beaten work of pure gold.
Its snuffers and its snuff dishes shall be of pure gold.
It shall be made of a talent of pure gold, with all these accessories.
You shall make fifty clasps of gold, and couple the curtains to one another with the clasps. The tabernacle shall be a unit.
You shall overlay the boards with gold, and make their rings of gold for places for the bars. You shall overlay the bars with gold.
You shall hang it on four pillars of acacia overlaid with gold; their hooks shall be of gold, on four sockets of silver.
You shall make for the screen five pillars of acacia, and overlay them with gold. Their hooks shall be of gold. You shall cast five sockets of bronze for them.
They shall use the gold, and the blue, and the purple, and the scarlet, and the fine linen.
“They shall make the ephod of gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the skillful workman.
The skillfully woven band, which is on it, shall be like its work and of the same piece; of gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen.
With the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings of a signet, you shall engrave the two stones, according to the names of the children of Israel. You shall make them to be enclosed in settings of gold.
You shall make settings of gold,
and two chains of pure gold; you shall make them like cords of braided work. You shall put the braided chains on the settings.
“You shall make a breastplate of judgment, the work of the skillful workman; like the work of the ephod you shall make it; of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, you shall make it.
and the fourth row a chrysolite, an onyx, and a jasper. They shall be enclosed in gold in their settings.
You shall make on the breastplate chains like cords, of braided work of pure gold.
You shall make on the breastplate two rings of gold, and shall put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate.
You shall put the two braided chains of gold in the two rings at the ends of the breastplate.
You shall make two rings of gold, and you shall put them on the two ends of the breastplate, on its edge, which is toward the side of the ephod inward.
You shall make two rings of gold, and shall put them on the two shoulder straps of the ephod underneath, in its forepart, close by its coupling, above the skillfully woven band of the ephod.
On its hem you shall make pomegranates of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, all around its hem; with bells of gold between and around them:
a golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate, around the hem of the robe.
“You shall make a plate of pure gold, and engrave on it, like the engravings of a signet, ‘HOLY TO YAHWEH.’
You shall overlay it with pure gold, its top, its sides around it, and its horns; and you shall make a gold molding around it.
You shall make two golden rings for it under its molding; on its two ribs, on its two sides you shall make them; and they shall be for places for poles with which to bear it.
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