כְּסַף
kᵉçaph · H3702 · Aramaic · 13 occurrences
Meanings
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silver
Silver, usually in the form of small unstamped pieces that had to be weighed in order to determine their value; after the exile, people in Israel started using coins
ExamplesEzra 5:14 ‘Also the gold and silver utensils of the house of God which Nebuchadnezzar had taken from the temple in Jerusalem and brought them to the temple of Babylon, King Cyrus took them from the temple of Babylon and they were given to one whose name was Sheshbazzar, whom he had appointed governor.
Ezra 6:5 ‘Also the gold and silver utensils of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took from the temple in Jerusalem and brought to Babylon, are to be returned and brought to their places in the temple in Jerusalem; and you shall put them in the house of God.’
Ezra 7:15 and to bring the silver and gold, which the king and his advisers have voluntarily given to the God of Israel, whose dwelling is in Jerusalem,
How it’s used In 7 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
3 occurrences in 3 groups
- דֵּןthis 1
- נְדַבfreewill 1
- שְׁכַחfind 1
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- כִּכֵּרtalent 1
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- דְּקַקbreak to pieces 1
What is done to itIt is the object
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- דְּקַקbreak to pieces 1
- יְבַלbring 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 2 groups
- דְּרַעarm 1
- חֲדִיbreast 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- בin/on/with 2
- עַדand 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- מָאןvessel 1
- שְׁאָרwhatsoever more 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 3 words
- ἀργύριον argýrion · G694 · silver, silver money, silver coin
- Greek ἀργύριον renders Aramaic כְּסַף as the standard translation equivalent for silver as precious metal or money, reflecting direct lexical correspondence across the LXX tradition for this semantic domain.
- ἄργυρος árgyros · G696 · silver, silver money, silver coin
- Greek ἄργυρος renders Aramaic כְּסַף in material/monetary contexts; both denote silver as metal and currency, direct translation equivalent across Daniel's bilingual corpus.
- כֶּסֶף keçeph · H3701 · silver, money
- Aramaic cognate of Hebrew כֶּסֶף (keçeph, H3701), denoting silver as metal or money; the two share identical semantic range across the sister languages.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Metals001002005008
- Daniel 2:32 describes the statue of Nebuchadnezzar's dream, “the head of that statue was made of fine gold, its chest and its arms of silver, its belly and its thighs of bronze.”
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3702. kesaph כְּסַף noun masculineEzr 7:17 silver (see Biblical Hebrew); — absolute ׳כ…
כְּסַף noun masculineEzr 7:17 silver (see Biblical Hebrew); — absolute ׳כ Ezr 7:15 +, כְּסַ֑ף Dan 2:32; emphatic כַּסְמָּא Dan 2:35 +; —
1 as material Dan 2:32, Dan 2:35, Dan 2:45; Ezr 5:14; Ezr 6:5.
2 as money or its equivalent Ezr 7:17, Ezr 7:15; Ezr 7:16; Ezr 7:18; Ezr 7:22.
כְּעֶת כְּעֶ֫נֶת, כְּעַן, see below ענה.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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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