Gold, Golden
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 1Co 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).
a diminutive of No. 1, is used (a) of “coin,” primarily smaller than those in No. 1 (a), Act 3:6; Act 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; Rev 18:16; (c) of “the metal in general,” Heb 9:4; 1Pe 1:7; Rev 21:18,21; metaphorically, (d) of “sound doctrine and its effects,” 1Co 3:12; (e) of “righteousness of life and conduct,” Rev 3:18.
denotes “golden,” i.e., made of, or overlaid with, gold, 2Ti 2:20; Heb 9:4, and fifteen times in the Apocalypse.