Hebrew noun (masculine) · H5777
עוֹפֶרֶת
opheretho-feh'-reth
lead
9 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʻôwphereth
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5777is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 6 of 39Old Testament books
- 9spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H5777
lead (from its dusty color)
The King James renders it: lead.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
ophereth is rendered "lead". It stands 9 times in the Hebrew text, across six books.
- Three of the uses stand in Ezekiel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 15:10But You blew with Your breath, and the sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters.
- The Greek text spells it nine different ways.
The first use
But You blew with Your breath, and the sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters.
Exodus 15:10כַּֽעוֹפֶ֔רֶת
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and lead4
- lead2
- the lead2
- like the lead1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 9, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
9 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- הָעֹפֶ֖רֶת1
- הָעֹפָֽרֶת׃1
- וְעוֹפֶ֙רֶת֙1
- וְעוֹפֶ֤רֶת1
- וְעוֹפֶ֔רֶת1
- וְעֹפָ֑רֶת1
- כַּֽעוֹפֶ֔רֶת1
- עֹפֶ֖רֶת1
- עֹפָ֑רֶת1
The grammar of each form
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular4HC/Ncfsa
- noun · feminine singular2HNcfsa
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singular2HTd/Ncfsa
- preposition with the article + noun · feminine singular1HRd/Ncfsa
Exodus
one use
But You blew with Your breath, and the sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters.
- כַּֽעוֹפֶ֔רֶתkaoferetpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: like the lead
Numbers
one use
Only the gold, silver, bronze, iron, tin, and lead—
- הָעֹפָֽרֶת׃haofaretthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the lead
Job
one use
by an iron stylus on lead, or chiseled in stone forever.
- וְעֹפָ֑רֶתveofaretconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and lead
Jeremiah
one use
The bellows blow fiercely, blasting away the lead with fire. The refining proceeds in vain, for the wicked are not purged.
- עֹפָ֑רֶתʾofaretnoun · feminine singulartagged: lead
Ezekiel
three uses
“Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to Me. All of them are copper, tin, iron, and lead inside the furnace; they are but the dross of silver.
- וְעוֹפֶ֙רֶת֙veoferetconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and lead
Just as one gathers silver, copper, iron, lead, and tin into the furnace to melt with a fiery blast, so I will gather you in My anger and wrath, leave you there, and melt you.
- וְעוֹפֶ֤רֶתveoferetconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and lead
Tarshish was your merchant because of your great wealth of goods; they exchanged silver, iron, tin, and lead for your wares.
- וְעוֹפֶ֔רֶתveoferetconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and lead
Zechariah
two uses
And behold, the cover of lead was raised, and there was a woman sitting inside the basket.
- עֹפֶ֖רֶתʾoferetnoun · feminine singulartagged: lead
“This is Wickedness,” he said. And he shoved her down into the basket, pushing down the lead cover over its opening.
- הָעֹפֶ֖רֶתhaoferetthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the lead
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.