silver
ke.saph names a precious metal used for image components, vessels, offerings, purchases, and measured resources.
The term most often identifies a precious metal among the materials of an image, temple vessels, or gods named in praise; it also denotes a resource collected, offered, spent for offerings, and measured in an administrative instruction.
Senses in use
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Metal in objects, images, and named gods · dominant
In Daniel 2:32 the APB renders the image's chest and arms as being made of this material, and Daniel 2:35 places it among the materials crushed with the image. In Daniel 5:2 and Ezra 5:14, it is associated with vessels, while Daniel 5:4 names gods made from it among gold, bronze, iron, wood, and stone.
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Resource for offerings and purchase · common
In Ezra 7:15 and Ezra 7:16 the APB presents it with gold as something offered or found for the house in Jerusalem. Ezra 7:17 identifies it as the resource used to purchase animals and accompanying offerings, and Ezra 7:22 sets an upper amount alongside wheat, wine, oil, and salt.
In the Anselm Project Bible: Across these verses the APB regularly presents the term as “silver,” whether in lists of image materials, vessels, gods, offerings, or measured supplies. These renderings confirm the verse contexts rather than isolate every contribution of the Aramaic token.