The word in Scripture

Silver in the Bible

The word silver appears 320 times in the King James Version of the Bible. Silver is refined and valued money and metal. And like every true word of Scripture, it finds its fullness in Jesus Christ.

What silver means in the Bible

Silver is refined and valued money and metal.

Where the word silver appears

Here are 8 of the passages where the word silver appears, chosen from across the Scriptures, in the words of the King James Bible:

“All the pillars round about the court shall be filleted with silver; their hooks shall be of silver, and their sockets of brass.”Exodus 27:17

“The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.”Psalms 12:6

“He brought them forth also with silver and gold: and there was not one feeble person among their tribes.”Psalms 105:37

“Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall not regard silver; and as for gold, they shall not delight in it.”Isaiah 13:17

“The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains.”Isaiah 40:19

“Provide neither gold, nor silver, nor brass in your purses,”Matthew 10:9

“And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself.”Matthew 27:5

“Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;”1 Peter 1:18