Lexicon kethem: gold Original Word: כָּ֫תֶםPart of Speech: Noun Masculine Transliteration: kethem Phonetic Spelling: (keh'-them) Short Definition: gold NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom an unused word Definitiongold NASB Translationfine gold (2), gold (6), pure gold (1).
Brown-Driver-Briggs כֶּ֫תֶם noun masculineLamentations 4:1 gold, in poetry and late (perhaps loan-word in Hebrew; Phoenician has proper name, masculine כתם; Sabean כתם Hal Et. Sab. 190; kaθam¹ as loan-word in Egyptian, Bondi 80f.); — ׳כ absolute Job 28:19 3t., כָּ֑תֶם Proverbs 25:12; construct כֶּתֶם Isaiah 13:12 3t.; — אוֺפִיר ׳כ Isaiah 13:12 gold of Ophir ("" מָּ֑ז), so Job 28:16; Psalm 45:10; אוּפָ֑ז ׳כ Daniel 10:5 (read perhaps אוֺפִיר for אוּפָז q. v.); ׳כ alone Job 31:24 ׅ "" (זָהָב ׳חֲלִיכֿ Proverbs 25:12 ornament of gold ׅ "" (זָהָבנֶזֶם מָּ֑ז ׳כ Songs 5:11; טָהוֺר ׳כ Job 28:19; הַטּוֺב ׳הַכּ Lamentations 4:1 "" זָהָב. כתן (√ of following, = clothe? so ZehnpfBAS i, 532, who derives therefrom Assyrian kitinnê, linen, cloth, = Arabic see also Aramaic כִּיתָּנָא and below)
Strong's most fine, pure golden wedge From katham; properly, something carved out, i.e. Ore; hence, gold (pure as originally mined) -- ((most) fine, pure) gold(-en wedge). see HEBREW katham |
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