KJV dictionary & concordance
1. Of cloth or workmanship, delicate or finely made. 2. Of flour or meal, finely ground or prepared. 3. Of gold or other metal, pure, refined, or of high quality. 4. As a verb, to refine or purify metal.
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Some verses contain the word more than once.
First occurrence: Genesis 18:6
Complete exact-word concordance
Also twenty basons of gold, of a thousand drams; and two vessels of fine copper, precious as gold.
Also twenty basons of gold, of a thousand drammes, and two vessels of fine copper, precious as gold.
1611 marginal noteHebr. yellow or shining brasse.
1611 marginal noteHebr. desireable.
Where were white, green, and blue, hangings, fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and pillars of marble: the beds were of gold and silver, upon a pavement of red, and blue, and white, and black, marble.
Where were white, greene and blew hangings, fastened with cords of fine linnen, and purple, to siluer rings, and pillers of marble: the beds were of gold and siluer, vpon a pauement of red, and blewe, and white, and blacke marble.
1611 marginal noteOr, violet.
1611 marginal noteOr, of porphyre, and marble, and alabaster, and stone of blew colour.
¶ And Mordecai went out from the presence of the king in royal apparel of blue and white, and with a great crown of gold, and with a garment of fine linen and purple: and the city of Shushan rejoiced and was glad.
¶ And Mordecai went out from the presence of the king, in royall apparell, of blew and white, and with a great crowne of gold, and with a garment of fine linnen, and purple, and the citie of Shushan reioyced, and was glad:
1611 marginal noteOr, violet.
SURELY there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold where they fine it.
¶ Surely there is a veine for the siluer, and a place for golde where they fine it.
1611 marginal noteOr, a mine.
The gold and the crystal cannot equal it: and the exchange of it shall not be for jewels of fine gold.
The golde and the chrystall cannot equall it: and the exchange of it shall not be for iewels of fine golde.
1611 marginal noteOr vessell of fine gold.
If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence;
If I haue made golde my hope, or haue said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence:
More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.
More to bee desired are they then gold, yea, then much fine gold: sweeter also then hony, and the hony combe.
1611 marginal noteHebr. the dropping of hony combes.
1611 marginal notePsal.119.72. & 127 and 103. prou. 8.19.
Therefore I love thy commandments above gold; yea, above fine gold.
Therefore I loue thy Commandements: aboue gold, yea aboue fine gold.
1611 marginal noteProu.8.11. psal.19.9.
For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold.
For the merchandise of it is better then the merchandise of siluer, and the gaine thereof, then fine gold.
1611 marginal noteIob 28.15. &c. psal. 19.10. pro. 8. vers. 11. and 19 and 16.16.
I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt.
I haue deckt my bed with couerings of tapestrie, with carued workes, with fine linnen of Egypt.
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To refine; to purify by removing dross.
