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The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ISBE) is an authoritative reference encyclopedia which explains every significant word, subject, place, person, and doctrine in the Bible and Apocrypha! In scope, the ISBE covers literature (apocalyptic, apocryphal, sub-apostolic, etc.), archeology, ethnology, geography, topography, biography, arts and crafts, manners and customs, family life,...

“fine gold”; cf Gen 2:12, “good”); fine gold (Lam 4:1, AV “most fine gold,” RV “most pure gold,” lit. “good fine gold”), copper (Ezr 8:27, RV “fine bright brass”); ṭabh, Aram. (Dnl 2:32, “fine gold”). (2) pāz, “refined” (Cant 5:11, “the most fine gold”). (3) ḥēlebh, “fatness,” “the best of any kind”; cf Gen 45:18; Dt 32:14, etc (Ps 81:16, “the finest of the wheat,” RVm Heb “fat of wheat”). (4) sārīḳ, “fine combed” (Isa 19:9, “fine flax,” RV “combed flax”). In other places it expresses a quality
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