# H3800 כֶּתֶם

כֶּתֶם (kethem), Strong’s H3800: properly, something carved out, i.e. ore; hence, gold (pure as originally mined) KJV: ((most) fine, pure) gold(-en wedge).. Occurs 9 times.

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*kethem* — properly, something carved out, i.e. ore; hence, gold (pure as originally mined)

KJV: ((most) fine, pure) gold(-en wedge).

Derived from [כָּתַם kâtham](https://besorah.bible/word/H3799) (to carve or engrave)

Occurs 9 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- כֶּ֫תֶם n.m. gold, poet. and late

## Where it occurs
- [Isaiah 13:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/13?v=12) — I will make people more rare than fine gold, even a person than the pure gold of Ophir.
- [Psalms 45:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/45?v=10) — Kings’ daughters are among your honorable women. At your right hand the queen stands in gold of Ophir.
- [Proverbs 25:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/proverbs/25?v=12) — As an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover to an obedient ear.
- [Job 28:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/job/28?v=16) — It can’t be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.
- [Job 28:19](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/job/28?v=19) — The topaz of Ethiopia will not equal it. It won’t be valued with pure gold.
- [Job 31:24](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/job/31?v=24) — “If I have made gold my hope, and have said to the fine gold, ‘You are my confidence;’
- [Song of Songs 5:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/song-of-songs/5?v=11) — His head is like the purest gold. His hair is bushy, black as a raven.
- [Lamentations 4:1](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/lamentations/4?v=1) — How the gold has become dim! The most pure gold has changed! The stones of the sanctuary are poured out at the head of…
- [Daniel 10:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/daniel/10?v=5) — I lifted up my eyes and looked, and behold, there was a man clothed in linen, whose waist was adorned with pure gold of…