Bible Dictionary · B
Beaten gold
In Num 8:4, means “turned” or rounded work in gold. The Greek Version, however, renders the word “solid gold;” the Revised Version, “beaten work of gold.” In 1 Kgs 10:16, 1 Kgs 10:17, it probably means “mixed” gold, as the word ought to be rendered, i.e., not pure gold. Others render the word in these places “thin plates of gold.”
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), by Matthew George Easton.
