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When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them; and, behold, they are hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it.
Read in context →I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.
Read in context →2 occurrences in 2 verses.
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lâshôwn · law-shone'
the tongue (of man or animals), used literally (as the instrument of licking, eating, or speech), and figuratively (speech, an ingot, a fork of flame, a cove of water)
Strong's KJV usage: babbler, bay, evil speaker, language, talker, tongue, wedge.
Strong's first: Joshua 7:21Strong's last: Joshua 7:24
Open full H3956 profile →kethem · keh'-them
properly, something carved out, i.e. ore; hence, gold (pure as originally mined)
Strong's KJV usage: ((most) fine, pure) gold(-en wedge).
Strong's first: Isaiah 13:12Strong's last: Isaiah 13:12
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When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them; and, behold, they are hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it.
And Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver, and the garment, and the wedge of gold, and his sons, and his daughters, and his oxen, and his asses, and his sheep, and his tent, and all that he had: and they brought them unto the valley of Achor.
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WEDGE, noun [This word signifies a mass, a lump.]
1. A mass of metal; as a wedge of gold or silver. Joshua 7:21.
2. A piece of metal, particularly iron, thick at one end and sloping to a thin edge at the other, used in splitting wood, rocks, etc. This is one of the five mechanical powers. A like piece of wood is by some persons called a wedge or a glut.
3. Something in the form of a wedge Sometimes bodies of troops are drawn up in the form of a wedge
WEDGE, verb transitive
1. To cleave with a wedge; to rive. [Little used.]
2. To drive as a wedge is drive; to crowd or compress closely. We were wedged in by the crowd.
3. To force, as a wedge forces its way; as, to wedge ones way.
4. To fasten with a wedge or with wedges; as, to wedge on a sythe; to wedge in a rail or a piece of timber.
5. To fix in the manner of a wedge
Wedgd in the rocky shoals, and sticking fast.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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