ἄργυρος
árgyros · G696 · Greek · 5 occurrences
Thing
- Money, coinsCommerce363 verses
Meanings
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silver
The metal silver; after gold the next most highly valued metal in the ancient world
ExamplesActs 17:29 “Therefore, since we are the descendants of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by human skill and thought.
James 5:3 Your gold and your silver have corroded, and their corrosion will serve as a testimony against you and will consume your flesh like fire. It is in the last days that you have stored up your treasure!
Revelation 18:12 cargo of gold, silver, precious stones, and pearls; fine linen, purple, silk, and scarlet; every kind of citron wood, every article of ivory, and every article made from very valuable wood, bronze, iron, and marble;
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silver money, silver coin
Silver in the form of stamped coins used as money
ExamplesMatthew 10:9 “Do not acquire gold, or silver, or copper for your money belts,
How it’s used In 4 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- χάραγμαmark 1
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- κατιόωto become rusty 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- κτάομαιto get 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- γόμοςload 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 2 words
- כֶּסֶף keçeph · H3701 · silver, money
- Greek ἄργυρος and Hebrew כֶּסֶף both denote silver as the precious metal, whether in raw form, worked articles, or coined money, with extensive overlap across semantic and usage domains.
- כְּסַף kᵉçaph · H3702 · money, silver
- The Aramaic כְּסַף (kᵉçaph, H3702) serves as the direct cross-linguistic equivalent of Greek ἄργυρος (árgyros, G696), both denoting silver as metal, coinage, or monetary substance with no semantic distinction between the terms.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Silver2.51
- In Matthew 10:9, Jesus instructs the Twelve, “do not acquire gold, or silver (árgyron), or copper for your money belts,” naming silver as a valuable metal.
- Silver money, silver coin6.73
- In James 5:3, James rebukes the rich, “your gold and your silver (árgyros) have corroded, and their corrosion will serve as a testimony against you,” naming hoarded silver wealth rather than the raw metal itself.
Word family 5 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Also from the root ἄργυρος
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἀργύρου, ὁ (ἀργός shining) (from Homer down), silver: 1 Cor 3:12 (T Tr WH ἀργύριον)…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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