paz denotes prized gold used as a standard of value, desirability, and splendid appearance.

The attested noun denotes prized gold, used as a benchmark for what is precious or preferable and as material imagery for an admired person's appearance. In several verses it is set beside other valuables or invoked in comparisons, while Song of Songs uses it for a head and for bases beneath alabaster-like legs.

1. Prized gold in comparisons and imagery · dominant

   The masculine singular absolute form occurs in value comparisons: in Job 28:17 the APB renders a vessel of “pure gold” as unable to serve as an exchange, and in Proverbs 8:19 it renders fruit as better than gold and “pure gold.” In Lamentations 4:2 the sons of Zion are weighed with it, while in Song of Songs 5:11 and Song of Songs 5:15 it describes the man's head and the bases beneath his legs.

   Job 28:17Lamentations 4:2Proverbs 8:19Psalm 119:127Song of Songs 5:11Song of Songs 5:15

In the Anselm Project Bible: Where the clause is clear, the APB variously presents the material as “pure gold,” “fine gold,” or gold in a comparison. In Psalm 19:11 and Psalm 21:4, the supplied translation does not visibly isolate the term's contribution, so it cannot be assigned a specific APB rendering there.