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valuable or precious commodity. Consequently, the word is used in comparisons: “The
gold and the crystal cannot equal it: and the exchange of it shall not be for jewels of fine
gold” (Job 28:17).
“Gold” was often one of the spoils of war: “But all the silver, and gold, and vessels of
brass and iron, are consecrated unto the Lord: they shall come into the treasury of the
Lord” (Josh. 6:19).
“Gold” was bought and sold as an object of merchandise: “The merchants of Sheba
and Raamah, they were thy merchants: they [paid for your wares] with chief of all spices,
and with all precious stones, and gold” (Ezek. 27:22).
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was used as a costly gift: “And Balaam answered and said unto the servants of
Balak, If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I [could not do anything]
…” (Num. 22:18).
This metal was used as a material to make jewelry and other valuable items: “And it
came to pass, as the camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden earring of half
a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold …” (Gen.
24:22). Solomon’s temple was adorned with “gold” (1 Kings 6:20-28).
Gold was used as money, being exchanged in various weights and values (according
to its weight): “And he made three hundred shields of beaten gold; three pound of gold
went to one shield …” (1 Kings 10:17; cf. 2 Sam. 12:30). “Gold” even existed in the form
of “coins” (Ezra 2:69).
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is used for the color “gold”: “What be these two olive branches which through
the two golden pipes empty the golden oil out of themselves?” (Zech. 4:12).
GOOD
A. Adjective.
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, 2896), “good; favorable; festive; pleasing,;pleasant; well; better; right;
best.” This word appears in Akkadian, Aramaic, Arabic, Ugaritic, and Old South Arabic.
Occurring in all periods of biblical Hebrew, it appears about 559 times.
This adjective denotes “good” in every sense of that word. For example,
is used in
the sense “pleasant” or “delightful”: “And he saw that [a resting place] was good, and the
land that it was pleasant; and bowed his shoulder to bear [burdens] …” (Gen. 49:15). An
extension of this sense appears in Gen. 40:16, where
means “favorable” or “in one’s
favor”: “When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was
, he said unto
Joseph.…” In 1 Sam. 25:8, the emphasis is on the nuance “delightful” or “festal”: “… Let
the young men find favor in thine eyes: for we come in a
day.…” God is described
as One who is “good,” or One who gives “delight” and “pleasure”: “But it is good for me
to draw near to God: I have put my trust in the Lord God, that I may declare all thy
works” (Ps. 73:28).
In 1 Sam. 29:6, this word describes human activities: “… As the Lord liveth, thou
hast been upright, and thy going out and thy coming in with me in the [army] is good in
my sight.…”
can be applied to scenic beauty, as in 2 Kings 2:19: “Behold, I pray
thee, the situation of this city is pleasant, as my lord seeth: but the water is naught, and
the ground barren.” Second Chron. 12:12 employs a related nuance when it applies the