Gematria of Gold
5 Hebrew words of the lexicon are rendered “gold” in our Hebrew lexicon, and they stand 433 times between them in the twenty-four books. Hebrew and English do not answer one another word for word, so every candidate is here and none of them is called the translation.
- Hebrew equivalents
- 5
- Occurrences
- 433
- Distinct values
- 5
The 5 Hebrew words rendered “gold”
The count beside each word is every form of it the twenty-four books use — inflected, and with its prefixes — as the morphology tags them. The link under each row opens the search on the dictionary spelling alone, which is a different question and usually a smaller number, and it says so.
gold, figuratively, something gold-colored (i.e. yellow), as oil, a clear sky
First appearance ·Genesis 2:11בראשית ב:יאהַזָּהָֽב
properly, incised or (active) incisive; hence (as noun masculine or feminine) a trench (as dug), gold (as mined), a threshing-sledge (having sharp teeth); (figuratively) determination; also eager
First appearance ·Isaiah 28:27ישעיהו כח:כזבֶֽחָרוּץ
properly, shut up, i.e. the breast (as enclosing the heart); also gold (as generally shut up safely)
First appearance ·Hosea 13:8הושע יג:חסְגוֹר
The values on this page
Quick answers
What is the gematria of gold?
The Tanakh renders “gold” with 5 Hebrew words, each with its own gematria in the standard method: זהב = 14, דהב = 11, חרוץ = 304, and 2 more.
How do you say gold in Hebrew?
The Tanakh uses 5 Hebrew words for “gold”; the most frequent are זהב (zâhâb), 389 times; דהב (dᵉhab), 23 times; חרוץ (chărûwts), 18 times. Every one is listed on this page.
The Hebrew words on this page and their English senses come from our Hebrew lexicon, credited on the About page. Every value, every count and every reference is computed from the Westminster Leningrad Codex at the moment this page is served — the consonantal written text, vowel points and cantillation stripped, exactly as the search engine computes it.