# H5777 עוֹפֶרֶת

עוֹפֶרֶת (ʻôwphereth), Strong’s H5777: lead (from its dusty color) KJV: lead.. Occurs 9 times.

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*ʻôwphereth* — lead (from its dusty color)

KJV: lead.

Occurs 9 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- עֹפֶרֶת n.m. lead (√ dub.; prob. foreign word)

## Where it occurs
- [Exodus 15:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/15?v=10) — You blew with your wind. The sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters.
- [Numbers 31:22](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/31?v=22) — However the gold, and the silver, the bronze, the iron, the tin, and the lead,
- [Jeremiah 6:29](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/6?v=29) — The bellows blow fiercely. The lead is consumed in the fire. In vain they go on refining, for the wicked are not…
- [Ezekiel 22:18](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ezekiel/22?v=18) — “Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to me. All of them are bronze, tin, iron, and lead in the middle of…
- [Ezekiel 22:20](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ezekiel/22?v=20) — As they gather silver, bronze, iron, lead, and tin into the middle of the furnace, to blow the fire on it, to melt it…
- [Ezekiel 27:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ezekiel/27?v=12) — “‘“Tarshish was your merchant by reason of the multitude of all kinds of riches. They traded for your wares with…
- [Zechariah 5:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/zechariah/5?v=7) — and behold, a lead cover weighing one talent was lifted up—and there was a woman sitting in the middle of the efah…
- [Zechariah 5:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/zechariah/5?v=8) — He said, “This is Wickedness;” and he threw her down into the middle of the efah basket; and he threw the lead weight…
- [Job 19:24](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/job/19?v=24) — That with an iron pen and lead they were engraved in the rock forever!
