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Lexicon :: Strong's H3701 - kesep̄

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כֶּסֶף
Transliteration
kesep̄
Pronunciation
keh'-sef
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 1015a

Strong’s Definitions

כֶּסֶף keçeph, keh'-sef; from H3700; silver (from its pale color); by implication, money:—money, price, silver(-ling).


KJV Translation Count — Total: 403x

The KJV translates Strong's H3701 in the following manner: silver (287x), money (112x), price (3x), silverlings (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 403x
The KJV translates Strong's H3701 in the following manner: silver (287x), money (112x), price (3x), silverlings (1x).
  1. silver, money

    1. silver

      1. as metal

      2. as ornament

      3. as colour

    2. money, shekels, talents

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
כֶּסֶף keçeph, keh'-sef; from H3700; silver (from its pale color); by implication, money:—money, price, silver(-ling).
STRONGS H3701: Abbreviations
כֶּ֫סֶף 402 noun masculineGenesis 23:9 silver, money (Late Hebrew id.; Phoenician, Zinjirli כסף; Aramaic כַּסְמָּא bdb049401; Palmyrene כספא VogNo. 23; Assyrian kaspu; probably the pale metal Thes and others, compare RSJPh xiv,125) — כ׳ absolute Genesis 20:16 +, כָּ֑סֶף Exodus 21:11 +; construct Genesis 43:21 +; suffix כַּסְפִּי Genesis 42:28 + 3 times, כַּסְפְּךָ 1 Kings 20:3 + 2 times, כַּסְפֶּ֑ךָ Genesis 17:13; Isaiah 30:22, כַּסְפֵּךְ Isaiah 1:22, כַּסְפֵּנוּ Genesis 31:15 + 2 times, כַּסְפָּם Hosea 8:4 + 6 times; plural suffix כַּסְפֵּיהֶם Genesis 42:25, 35; — silver,
†1. = silver ore, raw silver (rare and mostly late) Job 28:1, also (in figurative) Ezekiel 22:20, 22; Zechariah 13:9; Proverbs 2:4; Proverbs 17:3; Proverbs 27:21; Malachi 3:3 (twice in verse); Psalm 12:7; Psalm 66:10; Isaiah 48:10; הָגוֺ סִיגים מִכּ׳ Proverbs 25:4 remove dross from silver, compare סִיגִים כ׳ Proverbs 26:23 and מִגִים כ׳ Ezekiel 22:18 (MT; Greek Version of the LXX ס׳ כ׳; Co strike out in view of Ezekiel 22:20); נִמְאָס כ׳ Jeremiah 6:30 (compare Jeremiah 6:29), לְסִיגִים הָיָה כַּסְפֵּךְ Isaiah 1:22.
†2. sliver as bright, shining, figurative of dove's wings בַכֶּ֑סֶף נֶחְפָּה יוֹנָה כַּנְפֵי Psalm 68:14.
3. silver, as wealth, Genesis 13:2 (J) + often (approximately + 54 times in all; frequently with gold, etc., see זהב); מְלֹא וזהב בֵיתוֺ כ׳ Numbers 22:18; Numbers 24:13; figurative of a slave as valuable, הוּא כַּסְפּוֹ Exodus 21:21 (all J E); silver as less valuable than gold 1 Kings 10:21 2 Chronicles 9:20; compare also 1 Kings 10:27 2 Chronicles 1:15; 9:27; נִבְחָר כ׳ choice silver, Proverbs 18:19; Proverbs 10:20.
4. silver as spoil of war (with זהב, which see) Judges 5:19; 2 Samuel 8:11 = 1 Chronicles 18:11 + 11 times
†5. sliver as merchandise Ezekiel 27:12; Proverbs 3:14 (סְחַרכֿ׳), Zephaniah 1:12; compare also 1 Kings 10:22 2 Chronicles 9:21.
6. silver as costly gift (with זהב, which see) 1 Kings 15:18, 19 2 Chronicles 16:2, 3; 2 Kings 16:8; 2 Kings 18:15; 2 Chronicles 9:14; 17:11; 21:3; Isaiah 60:9; Daniel 11:38 (other instances under 8).
7. silver as material (with + 117 times in all; often with זהב, which see), of cup Genesis 44:2 compare Genesis 44:8 (J), trumpets Numbers 10:2 (P), כְּלֵיכֿ׳ Genesis 24:53 (J) +; of idols Exodus 20:23; Isaiah 2:20; Deuteronomy 29:16; Ezekiel 16:17; Psalm 115:4; Psalm 135:15 + 4 times, compare Deuteronomy 7:25; Jeremiah 10:4; Habakkuk 2:19; especially of fittings of tabernacle Exodus 26; Exodus 27; Exodus 36; Exodus 38. (19 times), and those offered by chiefs of people Numbers 7 (28 times), etc.
8. silver as measure of weight and value (approximately 184 times): —
†a. shekels: — שְׁלשִׁים שְׁקָלִים כ׳ Exodus 21:32 (JE), compare 2 Samuel 24:24; Leviticus 5:15; Numbers 18:16 (both P), Nehemiah 5:15; also (different order) חֲמִשָּׁה שׁקלים כ׳ Leviticus 27:6 (twice in verse) (P), compare Joshua 7:21 (JE), 2 Kings 15:20, and אַרְבַּע מֵאֹת שֶׁקֶל י׳ Genesis 23:15, 16, compare Leviticus 27:3, 16 (all P), 1 Samuel 9:8; once שִׁבְעָה שְׁקָלִים וַעֲשָׂרָה הַכּ׳ Jeremiah 32:9.
b. more often omitted שׁקל Genesis 20:16; Genesis 45:22 (E), Genesis 37:28 (J), Hosea 3:2; Songs 8:11 + 17 times
†c. talents: — כִּכַּר (הַ)כּ׳ Exodus 38:27 (P), compare 1 Kings 20:39; 2 Kings 5:22; 2 Kings 15:19; 2 Kings 18:14; 2 Kings 23:33 2 Chronicles 36:3; 1 Chronicles 19:6; 2 Chronicles 25:6; 27:5; Esther 3:9; עֶשֶׂר כִּכְּרֵיכֿ׳ 2 Kings 5:5; כִּכְּרַיִם כ׳ 1 Kings 16:24; 2 Kings 5:23; אלף אלפים ככרים כ׳ 1 Chronicles 22:14; compare 1 Chronicles 29:7; Ezra 8:26.
†d. minas: — מָנִים חֲמֵשֶׁת אֲלָפִים כ׳ Ezra 2:69 compare Nehemiah 7:70, 71.
e. more often = money, measure of value and exchange (approximately 112 times; not necessarily coined) Genesis 31:15; Genesis 42:25, 27 (E), Genesis 43:12 (twice in verse); Genesis 43:15, 18 (J), Genesis 23:13; Leviticus 27:18; Numbers 3:48 (P), Judges 16:18; 1 Kings 21:2; 2 Kings 12:5 etc.; so Psalm 68:31 Che, but see De Grill Bae, and Checritical note.; מִקְנַת כ׳ one bought for money Genesis 17:12, 13, 23, 27; Exodus 12:44 (all P); מִקְנָתוֺ כ׳ Leviticus 25:51 (H) money for which he was bought; מָלֵא כ׳ full price Genesis 23:9 (P) 1 Chronicles 21:22, 24; בְּמִשְׁקָוֹ כַּסְפֵּנוּ Genesis 43:21 i.e. our money in full; מִמְכָרוֺ כ׳ Leviticus 25:50 the price of his sale; אָשָׁם כ׳ 2 Kings 12:7 trespass-money, חַטָּאוֺת כ׳ 2 Kings 12:7 sin-money, הַכִּפֻּרִים כ׳ Exodus 30:16 atonement-money, הַפִּדְיוֹן כ׳ Numbers 3:49 redemption-money (both P); עֶרְכְּךָ כ׳ Leviticus 27:15, 19 i.e. estimated value, etc.
9. among verbs and phrase with כ׳ are: — צרף try, refine, Zechariah 13:9; Isaiah 48:10; Malachi 3:3a Psalm 12:7; Psalm 66:10; זִקַּק Malachi 3:3b, (compare הִתּוּךְ Ezekiel 22:22, √ נתך, see Ezekiel 22:20; Ezekiel 22:21); יפּה beautify בכ׳ Jeremiah 10:4; תָּפוּשׂ כ׳ Habakkuk 2:19 encased with gold and silver; לְ שָׁקַל אתהַֿכּ׳ weigh out the silver to or for a person Jeremiah 32:9; Genesis 23:16 (P) Ezra 8:25, without לְ Jeremiah 32:10, compare Exodus 22:16 (E), 1 Kings 20:39; ב׳ שׁקל כ׳ Isaiah 55:2 = spend money for; מְחִירָהּ לֹא יִשָּׁקֵל כ׳ Job 28:15; וַיִּשְׁקְלוּ אֶתשְֿׂכָרִי שׁלשׁים כ׳ Zechariah 11:12; בַּקָּנֶה ישׁקלו כ׳ Isaiah 46:6, of weighing material for idol; מָכַר בכ׳ sell for money Amos 2:6; Genesis 37:28 (J), Deuteronomy 21:14; נָתַן בכ׳ Deuteronomy 2:28b 1 Kings 21:6, 15; Genesis 23:9 (P), 1 Chronicles 21:22; also, of food, הִשְׁבִּיר ב׳ Deuteronomy 2:28a; השׂדה נתן כ׳ Genesis 23:13 (P) pay the price of the field; קָנָה בְכ׳ buy something for money Amos 8:6; Jeremiah 32:25, 44; Isaiah 43:24; 1 Chronicles 21:24, compare קָנָה נֶפֶשׁ קִנְיַן כ׳ Leviticus 22:11 (H); שׁבר בכ׳ Deuteronomy 2:6a Isaiah 55:1; כרה בכ׳ Deuteronomy 2:6b; peculiar is its use with פָּדָה, redeem (which see) in Numbers 18:16; לקח כ׳ receive money 2 Kings 5:26; 2 Kings 12:8; 2 Kings 12:9; לָוָה כ׳ Nehemiah 5:4 borrow money; הִלְוָה Exodus 22:24 (JE) lend money to (with 2 accusative); בְּנֶשֶׁךְ נתן כ׳ give money on usury Leviticus 25:37 (H), Psalm 15:5; compare לֹא תַשִּׁיךְ לְאָחִיךָ נֶשֶׁךְ כ׳ Deuteronomy 23:20.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

13:2; 17:12; 17:13; 17:13; 17:23; 17:27; 20:16; 20:16; 23:9; 23:9; 23:9; 23:13; 23:13; 23:15; 23:16; 23:16; 24:53; 31:15; 31:15; 37:28; 37:28; 42:25; 42:25; 42:27; 42:28; 42:35; 43:12; 43:15; 43:18; 43:21; 43:21; 44:2; 44:8; 45:22

Exodus

12:44; 20:23; 21:11; 21:21; 21:32; 22:16; 22:24; 26; 27; 30:16; 36; 38; 38:27

Leviticus

5:15; 22:11; 25:37; 25:50; 25:51; 27:3; 27:6; 27:15; 27:16; 27:18; 27:19

Numbers

3:48; 3:49; 7; 10:2; 18:16; 18:16; 22:18; 24:13

Deuteronomy

2:6; 2:6; 2:28; 2:28; 7:25; 21:14; 23:20; 29:16

Joshua

7:21

Judges

5:19; 16:18

1 Samuel

9:8

2 Samuel

8:11; 24:24

1 Kings

10:21; 10:22; 10:27; 15:18; 15:19; 16:24; 20:3; 20:39; 20:39; 21:2; 21:6; 21:15

2 Kings

5:5; 5:22; 5:23; 5:26; 12:5; 12:7; 12:7; 12:8; 12:9; 15:19; 15:20; 16:8; 18:14; 18:15; 23:33

1 Chronicles

18:11; 19:6; 21:22; 21:22; 21:24; 21:24; 22:14; 29:7

2 Chronicles

1:15; 9:14; 9:20; 9:21; 9:27; 16:2; 16:3; 17:11; 21:3; 25:6; 27:5; 36:3

Ezra

2:69; 8:25; 8:26

Nehemiah

5:4; 5:15; 7:70; 7:71

Esther

3:9

Job

28:1; 28:15

Psalms

12:7; 12:7; 15:5; 66:10; 66:10; 68:14; 68:31; 115:4; 135:15

Proverbs

2:4; 3:14; 10:20; 17:3; 18:19; 25:4; 26:23; 27:21

Song of Songs

8:11

Isaiah

1:22; 1:22; 2:20; 30:22; 43:24; 46:6; 48:10; 48:10; 55:1; 55:2; 60:9

Jeremiah

6:29; 6:30; 10:4; 10:4; 32:9; 32:9; 32:10; 32:25; 32:44

Ezekiel

16:17; 22:18; 22:20; 22:20; 22:20; 22:21; 22:22; 22:22; 27:12

Daniel

11:38

Hosea

3:2; 8:4

Amos

2:6; 8:6

Habakkuk

2:19; 2:19

Zephaniah

1:12

Zechariah

11:12; 13:9; 13:9

Malachi

3:3; 3:3; 3:3

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H3701 matches the Hebrew כֶּסֶף (kesep̄),
which occurs 403 times in 343 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 7 / 7 (Isa 60:17–Mal 3:3)

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 60:17 -

“Instead of bronze I will bring gold,

And instead of iron I will bring silver H3701,

And instead of wood, bronze,

And instead of stones, iron.

And I will make peace your administrators,

And righteousness your overseers.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:30 -

They call them rejected silver H3701,

Because the LORD has rejected them.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:4 -

“They decorate the idol with silver H3701 and gold;

They fasten it with nails and hammers

So that it will not totter.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:9 -

Beaten silver H3701 is brought from Tarshish,

And gold from Uphaz,

The work of a craftsman and of the hands of a goldsmith;

Their clothing is of violet and purple;

They are all the work of skilled people.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:9 -

“So I bought the field which was in Anathoth from Hanamel my uncle’s son, and I weighed out the silver H3701 for him, seventeen shekels of silver H3701.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:10 - “And I [fn]signed and sealed the deed, and called in witnesses, and weighed out the silver H3701 on the scales.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:25 - ‘Yet You have said to me, Lord [fn]GOD, “Buy for yourself the field with money H3701 and call in witnesses”—although the city has been handed over to the Chaldeans.’”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:44 - People will buy fields for money H3701, [fn]sign and seal [fn]deeds, and call in witnesses in the land of Benjamin, in the areas surrounding Jerusalem, in the cities of Judah, in the cities of the hill country, in the cities of the lowland, and in the cities of the [fn]Negev; for I will restore their fortunes,’ declares the LORD.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:19 - The captain of the guard also took the bowls, the firepans, the basins, the pots, the lampstands, the [fn]pans, and the drink offering bowls, whatever was fine gold, and whatever was fine H3701 silver H3701.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:4 -

[fn]We have to pay H3701 for our drinking water,

Our wood comes to us at a price.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:19 - ‘They will fling their silver H3701 into the streets, and their gold will become an abhorrent thing; their silver H3701 and their gold will not be able to save them on the day of the wrath of the LORD. They cannot satisfy their [fn]appetite, nor can they fill their stomachs, because their wrongdoing has become a cause of stumbling.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:13 - “So you were adorned with gold and silver H3701, and your dress was of fine linen, silk, and colorfully woven cloth. You ate fine flour, honey, and oil; so you were exceedingly beautiful and advanced to royalty.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:17 - “You also took your beautiful [fn]jewels made of My gold and of My silver H3701, which I had given you, and made for yourself male images so that you might commit prostitution with them.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:18 - “Son of man, the house of Israel has become [fn]waste metal to Me; all of them are bronze, tin, iron, and lead in the smelting furnace; they are the [fn]waste metal of silver H3701.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:20 - ‘As they gather silver H3701, bronze, iron, lead, and tin into the smelting furnace to blow fire on it in order to melt it, so I will gather you in My anger and in My wrath, and I will place you there and melt you.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:22 - ‘As silver H3701 is melted in the furnace, so you will be melted in the midst of it; and you will know that I, the LORD, have poured out My wrath on you.’”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 27:12 -

“Tarshish was your customer because of the abundance of all kinds of wealth; with silver H3701, iron, tin, and lead they paid for your merchandise.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 28:4 -

“By your wisdom and understanding

You have acquired riches for yourself

And have acquired gold and silver H3701 for your treasuries.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:13 - “Sheba and Dedan and the merchants of Tarshish with all its [fn]villages will say to you, ‘Have you come to capture spoils? Have you assembled your contingent to seize plunder, to carry away silver H3701 and gold, to take away livestock and goods, to capture great spoils?’”’
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:8 - “And he will also take into captivity to Egypt their gods with their cast metal images and their precious vessels of silver H3701 and gold, and he on his part will [fn]refrain from attacking the king of the North for some years.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:38 - “But [fn]instead he will honor a god of fortresses, a god whom his fathers did not know; he will honor him with gold, silver H3701, precious stones, and treasures.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:43 - “But he will [fn]gain control over the hidden treasures of gold and silver H3701, and over all the precious things of Egypt; and Libyans and Ethiopians will follow at his [fn]heels.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 2:8 -

“Yet she does not know that it was I myself who gave her the grain, the new wine, and the oil,

And lavished on her silver H3701 and gold,

Which they [fn]used for Baal.

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 3:2 - So I purchased her for myself for fifteen shekels of silver H3701, and a [fn]homer and a [fn]lethech of barley.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 8:4 -

They have set up kings, but not by Me;

They have appointed officials, but I did not know it.

With their silver H3701 and gold they have made idols for themselves,

So that [fn]they will be eliminated.

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 9:6 -

For behold, they will be gone because of destruction;

Egypt will gather them together, Memphis will bury them.

Weeds will take possession of their treasures of silver H3701;

Thorns will be in their tents.

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 13:2 -

And now they sin more and more,

And make for themselves cast metal images,

Idols [fn]skillfully made from their silver H3701,

All of them the work of craftsmen.

They say of them, “Let the [fn]people who sacrifice kiss the calves!”

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 3:5 - “Since you have taken My silver H3701 and My gold, brought My precious [fn]treasures to your temples,
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 2:6 -

This is what the LORD says:

“For three offenses of Israel, and for four,

I will not revoke its punishment,

Because they sell the righteous for [fn]money H3701,

And the needy for a pair of sandals.

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 8:6 -

So as to buy the helpless for [fn]money H3701,

And the needy for a pair of sandals,

And that we may sell the refuse of the wheat?”

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 3:11 -

Her leaders pronounce judgment for a bribe,

Her priests teach for pay,

And her prophets divine for money H3701.

Yet they lean on the LORD, saying,

“Is the LORD not in our midst?

Catastrophe will not come upon us.”

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 2:9 -

Plunder the silver H3701,

Plunder the gold!

For there is no end to the treasure

Wealth from every kind of desirable object.

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 2:19 -

“Woe to him who says to a piece of wood, ‘Awake!’

To a mute stone, ‘Arise!’

That is your teacher?

Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver H3701,

Yet there is no breath at all inside it.

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:11 -

“Wail, you inhabitants of the [fn]Mortar,

Because all the [fn]people of Canaan will be destroyed;

All who weigh out silver H3701 will be eliminated.

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:18 -

Neither their silver H3701 nor their gold

Will be able to save them

On the day of the LORD’S anger;

And all the earth will be devoured

By the fire of His jealousy,

For He will make a complete end,

Indeed a horrifying one,

Of all the inhabitants of the earth.

Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:8 - ‘The silver H3701 is Mine and the gold is Mine,’ declares the LORD of armies.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 6:11 - “Also take silver H3701 and gold, make an ornate crown, and set it on the head of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 9:3 -

For Tyre built herself a fortress,

And piled up silver H3701 like dust,

And gold like the mud of the streets.

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 11:12 - And I said to them, “If it is good in your sight, give me my wages; but if not, [fn]never mind!” So they weighed out thirty shekels of silver H3701 as my wages.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 11:13 - Then the LORD said to me, “Throw it to the potter, that magnificent price at which I was valued by them.” So I took the thirty shekels of silver H3701 and threw them to the potter in the house of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 13:9 -

“And I will bring the third part through the fire,

Refine them as silver H3701 is refined,

And test them as gold is tested.

They will call on My name,

And I will answer them;

I will say, ‘They are My people,’

And they will say, ‘The LORD is my God.’”

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 14:14 - Judah also will fight at Jerusalem; and the wealth of all the surrounding nations will be gathered, gold, silver H3701, and garments in great abundance.
Unchecked Copy BoxMal 3:3 - “And He will sit as a smelter and purifier of silver H3701, and He will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver H3701, so that they may present to the LORD [fn]offerings in righteousness.

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