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silver

Meaning of “silver”

A precious white metal used for money, vessels, ornaments, images, trade, valuation, and refining; by extension, money or wealth reckoned in that metal.

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320 occurrences282 verses42 booksKJV PCE

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First occurrence: Genesis 13:2

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Esther 1:6
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.
2 word occurrences in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Esther 1:6 · retained source text

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.

Esther 3:9
If it please the king, let it be written that they may be destroyed: and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver to the hands of those that have the charge of the business, to bring it into the king’s treasuries.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Esther 3:9 · retained source text

If it please the king, let it be written, that they may be destroyed: and I will pay ten thousand talents of siluer to the handes of those that haue the charge of the businesse, to bring it into the kings treasuries.

1611 marginal noteHeb. to destroy them.

1611 marginal noteHeb. weigh.

Esther 3:11
And the king said unto Haman, The silver is given to thee, the people also, to do with them as it seemeth good to thee.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Esther 3:11 · retained source text

And the king saide vnto Haman, The siluer is giuen to thee, the people also, to doe with them, as it seemeth good to thee.

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