Dictionaries :: Gold, Golden

Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words

Gold, Golden:

is used

(a) of "coin," Mat 10:9; Jam 5:3;

(b) of "ornaments," Mat 23:16, 17; Jam 5:3 (perhaps both coin and ornaments); Rev 18:12; some mss. have it instead of No. 2 in 1Cr 3:12;

(c) of "images," Act 17:29;

(d) of "the metal in general," Mat 2:11; Rev 9:7 (some mss. have it in Rev 18:16).

Gold, Golden:

a diminutive of No. 1, is used

(a) of "coin," primarily smaller than those in No. 1 (a), Act 3:6; 20:33; 1Pe 1:18;

(b) of "ornaments," 1Pe 3:3, and the following (in which some mss. have No. 1), 1Ti 2:9; Rev 17:4; 18:16;

(c) of "the metal in general," Hbr 9:4; 1Pe 1:7; Rev 21:18, 21; metaphorically,

(d) of "sound doctrine and its effects," 1Cr 3:12;

(e) of "righteousness of life and conduct," Rev 3:18.

Gold, Golden:

denotes "golden," i.e., made of, or overlaid with, gold, 2Ti 2:20; Hbr 9:4, and fifteen times in the Apocalypse.