בְּדִילbᵉdîyl

alloy, tin, dross

Pronunciation: bed-eel' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H913

Meanings

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 6 times in the Bible.

  • Numbers 31:22 Anything made of gold, silver, bronze, iron, tin, or lead—
  • Isaiah 1:25 I will raise my fist against you. I will melt you down and skim off your slag. I will remove all your impurities.
  • Ezekiel 22:18 “Son of man, the people of Israel are the worthless slag that remains after silver is smelted. They are the dross that is left over—a useless mixture of copper, tin, iron, and lead.
  • Ezekiel 22:20 Just as silver, copper, iron, lead, and tin are melted down in a furnace, I will melt you down in the heat of my fury.
  • Ezekiel 27:12 “Tarshish sent merchants to buy your wares in exchange for silver, iron, tin, and lead.
  • Zechariah 4:10 Do not despise these small beginnings, for the Lord rejoices to see the work begin, to see the plumb line in Zerubbabel’s hand.” (The seven lamps represent the eyes of the Lord that search all around the world.)

Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).