דְּהַב
gold
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Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Particle, Definite Article 19 times (83%)
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute 4 times (17%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 23 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H1722 appears — 23 distinct verses across 2 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Ezra 5 verses
- Ezra 5:14 דַהֲבָ֣/ה n c ms det + ptcl def.art The gold and silver vessels also of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took out of the temple that was in Jerusalem, and brought into the temple of Babylon, those did Cyrus the king take out of the temple of Babylon, and they were delivered to one whose name was Sheshbazzar, whom he had made governor;
- Ezra 6:5 דַהֲבָ֣/ה n c ms det + ptcl def.art Also let the gold and silver vessels of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took forth out of the temple which is at Jerusalem, and brought to Babylon, be restored, and brought again to the temple which is at Jerusalem, everyone to its place; and you shall put them in the house of God.
- Ezra 7:15 וּ/דְהַ֑ב conj + n c ms and to carry the silver and gold, which the king and his counselors have freely offered to the God of Israel, whose habitation is in Jerusalem,
- Ezra 7:16 וּ/דְהַ֔ב conj + n c ms and all the silver and gold that you shall find in all the province of Babylon, with the freewill-offering of the people, and of the priests, offering willingly for the house of their God which is in Jerusalem;
- Ezra 7:18 וְ/דַהֲבָ֖/ה conj + n c ms det + ptcl def.art Whatever shall seem good to you and to your brothers to do with the rest of the silver and the gold, that do you after the will of your God.
Daniel 18 verses
- Daniel 2:32 דְהַ֣ב n c ms As for this image, its head was of fine gold, its breast and its arms of silver, its belly and its thighs of brass,
- Daniel 2:35 וְ/דַהֲבָ֗/א conj + n c ms det + ptcl def.art Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken in pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors; and the wind carried them away, so that no place was found for them: and the stone that struck the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.
- Daniel 2:38 דַהֲבָֽ/א n c ms det + ptcl def.art and wherever the children of men dwell, the animals of the field and the birds of the sky has he given into your hand, and has made you to rule over them all: you are the head of gold.
- Daniel 2:45 וְ/דַהֲבָ֔/א conj + n c ms det + ptcl def.art Because you saw that a stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it broke in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God has made known to the king what shall happen hereafter: and the dream is certain, and the interpretation of it sure.
- Daniel 3:1 דְהַ֔ב n c ms Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was sixty cubits, and the breadth of it six cubits: he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon.
- Daniel 3:5 דַּהֲבָ֔/א n c ms det + ptcl def.art that whenever you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music, you fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king has set up;
- Daniel 3:7 דַּהֲבָ֔/א n c ms det + ptcl def.art Therefore at that time, when all the peoples heard the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music, all the peoples, the nations, and the languages, fell down and worshiped the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.
- Daniel 3:10 דַּהֲבָֽ/א n c ms det + ptcl def.art You, O king, have made a decree, that every man that shall hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music, shall fall down and worship the golden image;
- Daniel 3:12 דַּהֲבָ֛/א n c ms det + ptcl def.art There are certain Jews whom you have appointed over the affairs of the province of Babylon: Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego; these men, O king, have not regarded you: they don't serve your gods, nor worship the golden image which you have set up.
- Daniel 3:14 דַּהֲבָ֛/א n c ms det + ptcl def.art Nebuchadnezzar answered them, Is it on purpose, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, that you don't serve my god, nor worship the golden image which I have set up?
- Daniel 3:18 דַּהֲבָ֛/א n c ms det + ptcl def.art But if not, be it known to you, O king, that we will not serve your gods, nor worship the golden image which you have set up.
- Daniel 5:2 דַּהֲבָ֣/א n c ms det + ptcl def.art Belshazzar, while he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king and his lords, his wives and his concubines, might drink from it.
- Daniel 5:3 דַהֲבָ֔/א n c ms det + ptcl def.art Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of the house of God which was at Jerusalem; and the king and his lords, his wives and his concubines, drank from them.
- Daniel 5:4 דַּהֲבָ֧/א n c ms det + ptcl def.art They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.
- Daniel 5:7 דַהֲבָ/א֙ n c ms det + ptcl def.art The king cried aloud to bring in the enchanters, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers. The king spoke and said to the wise men of Babylon, Whoever shall read this writing, and show me the interpretation of it, shall be clothed with purple, and have a chain of gold about his neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.
- Daniel 5:16 דַהֲבָ/א֙ n c ms det + ptcl def.art But I have heard of you, that you can give interpretations, and dissolve doubts; now if you can read the writing, and make known to me the interpretation of it, you shall be clothed with purple, and have a chain of gold about your neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.
- Daniel 5:23 וְ֠/דַהֲבָ/א conj + n c ms det + ptcl def.art but have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before you, and you and your lords, your wives and your concubines, have drunk wine from them; and you have praised the gods of silver and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which don't see, nor hear, nor know; and the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways, you have not glorified.
- Daniel 5:29 דַהֲבָ֖/א n c ms det + ptcl def.art Then commanded Belshazzar, and they clothed Daniel with purple, and put a chain of gold about his neck, and made proclamation concerning him, that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
דהב (dᵉhab) is a Hebrew noun most often rendered “gold.” It clusters heavily in Daniel, which alone accounts for 78% of its uses. With 23 verses in 2 books, it is an uncommon word in the Hebrew Bible. Debuting at Ezra 5:14, it then recurs through the corpus. From the same root come זהב and מדהבה. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H1722 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 23
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 23 distinct verses.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #1,368
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 1,368 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 23 occurrences in the concordance →
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 23 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 23 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Gold 14×, Golden 8×
- American Standard Version: Gold 14×, Golden 8×
- Berean Standard Bible: Gold 13×, Golden 7×, Have a gold 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Gold 18×, Golden 5×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H1722 across 23 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H1722 across 23 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H1722 across 23 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H1722 across 23 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- gold
Word origin
Derived from זהב (zâhâb) (H2091) — gold.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
דָּהַב
- (cmp. זהב, צהב) to be red (or yellow).—Hif. הִדְהִיב to redden, make red (with anger). Lev. R. s. 15, end (play on madhebah, Is. XIV, 4) שהיא מַדְהֶבֶת וכ׳ that reddens with indignation the face of every one coming near her. e.g. Isaiah 14:4
דְּהַב
- , gold. Targ. Gen. II, 11; a. e.—Y. B. Mets. II, 8ᶜ bot. קופד דד׳ a golden piece resembling meat; Tam. 32ᵃ; a. fr.—B. Mets. 70ᵃ; B. Bath. 166ᵃ ד׳ פריכא broken pieces of gold (for the melting pot). Ib. 165ᵇ ד׳ אין פחות וכ׳ if a note has the word ‘gold’ (without any further definition), it means no less than a Denar in gold (v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note).
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 18 distinct written forms H1722 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| דַּהֲבָ֛/א | Particle, Definite Article | Daniel 3:12 | 3 |
| דַהֲבָ/א֙ | Particle, Definite Article | Daniel 5:7 | 2 |
| דַהֲבָ֣/ה | Particle, Definite Article | Ezra 5:14 | 2 |
| דַּהֲבָ֔/א | Particle, Definite Article | Daniel 3:5 | 2 |
| דְהַ֔ב | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Daniel 3:1 | 1 |
| דְהַ֣ב | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Daniel 2:32 | 1 |
| דַהֲבָ֔/א | Particle, Definite Article | Daniel 5:3 | 1 |
| דַהֲבָ֖/א | Particle, Definite Article | Daniel 5:29 | 1 |
| דַהֲבָֽ/א | Particle, Definite Article | Daniel 2:38 | 1 |
| דַּהֲבָ֣/א | Particle, Definite Article | Daniel 5:2 | 1 |
| דַּהֲבָ֧/א | Particle, Definite Article | Daniel 5:4 | 1 |
| דַּהֲבָֽ/א | Particle, Definite Article | Daniel 3:10 | 1 |
| וְ/דַהֲבָ֔/א | Particle, Definite Article | Daniel 2:45 | 1 |
| וְ/דַהֲבָ֖/ה | Particle, Definite Article | Ezra 7:18 | 1 |
| וְ/דַהֲבָ֗/א | Particle, Definite Article | Daniel 2:35 | 1 |
| וְ֠/דַהֲבָ/א | Particle, Definite Article | Daniel 5:23 | 1 |
| וּ/דְהַ֑ב | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Ezra 7:15 | 1 |
| וּ/דְהַ֔ב | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Ezra 7:16 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H1722, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 21 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 23 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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