Strong's Lexicon

H913

H913 — בְּדִיל

Hebrew / Aramaic entry for Bible study and original-language reference.

Hebrewbdiylnoun mascOccurrences: 6TWOT: 203c

Definition / Gloss

Strong's Number:	H913
Word:	בְּדִיל
Part of Speech:	noun masc
Etymology:	from H914
Language:	Hebrew
Occurrences:	6
Transliteration:	bdiyl
Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation:	bed-eel'
Meaning:	1. alloy (because removed by smelting) 2. by analogy, tin
KJV Renderings:	+ plummet, tin.

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BDB922

בְּדִיל noun [masculine] alloy, tin, dross (originally that which is separated from precious metal; compare Plin^{Hist. Nat. xxiv. 16, xxxiii. 9}) — ׳ בּ absolute Num 31:22 + 4 t.; Plural suffix בְּדִילָ֑יִךְ Isa 1:25 —

1. alloy, Isa 1:25 figurative of evil of Jerusalem, which ׳ י will remove (הֵסִיר; || סִגָ֑יִךְ).

2. tin (plumbum album) Num 31:22 ( P ; + זָהָב, כֶּסֶף, נְחשֶׁת, בַּרְזֶל , עֹפָ֑רֶת); figurative of Israel Ezek 22:18 (+ נְחשֶׁת, בַּרְזֶל , עוֺפֶרֶת); in simile Ezek 22:20 (+ id. + כֶּסֶף); as article of commerce brought to Tyre from Tarshish Ezek 27:12 (+ כֶּסֶף, בַּרְזֶל, עוֺפֶרֶת).

3. plummet, הָאֶבֶן הַבְּדִיל (appositive) Zech 4:10.

Other Resources

Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament
R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, and Bruce K. Waltke

Englishman's Hebrew Concordance

בדיל (b’deel)

Numbers 31:22

KJV: Only the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead,

EHCC: the brass, the iron, the tin,

Ezekiel 22:18

KJV: Son of man, the house of Israel is to me become dross: all they are brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are even the dross of silver.dross of silver: Heb. drosses, etc

EHCC: all they (are) brass, and tin,

Ezekiel 27:12

KJV: Tarshish was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of all kind of riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded in thy fairs.

EHCC: with silver, iron, tin,

Zechariah 4:10

KJV: For who hath despised the day of small things? for they shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel with those seven; they are the eyes of the Lord, which run to and fro through the whole earth.for they…: or, since the seven eyes of the Lord shall rejoiceplummet: Heb. stone of tin

EHCC: shail see the plummet in the hand (marg.