cha.ruts denotes a precious metal used as a benchmark of value, wealth, and abundance in the cited passages.

The term denotes a precious metal, chiefly appearing in comparisons that rank wisdom, discipline, knowledge, and fruitful produce above material wealth; it also occurs in an image of amassed riches. Its contribution in the poetic wording of Psalm 68:14 is less clear from the translation.

1. Precious metal in value and wealth imagery · dominant

   The singular absolute noun occurs where wisdom, understanding, discipline, knowledge, and fruitful produce are set above prized material wealth in Proverbs 16:16, Proverbs 3:14, Proverbs 8:10, and Proverbs 8:19; in those verses the APB renders the comparison with “gold” or “choice gold.” In Zechariah 9:3, the same form stands in the description of Tyre heaping up silver and gold in abundance. Psalm 68:14 also has the singular absolute form, though the APB’s imagery of snow on Mount Zalmon does not isolate the term’s specific contribution.

   Proverbs 16:16Proverbs 3:14Proverbs 8:10Proverbs 8:19Zechariah 9:3Psalm 68:14

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB explicitly uses “gold” in Proverbs 16:16, Proverbs 3:14, Proverbs 8:10, Proverbs 8:19, and Zechariah 9:3. In Psalm 68:14, its translation does not provide an identifiable English counterpart for the term, so that verse’s specific rendering remains unclear.