Strong’s H3701 · Hebrew

כֶּסֶף
keçeph
keh'-sef

Definition

silver (from its pale color); by implication, money

Etymology

from H3700 (כָּסַף);

Where the KJV renders it

  • money
  • price
  • silver(-ling)

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

A deep-dive treatment of this word is in the works. The featured chapter above carries the long form of what this word meant to its first audience.