1 Kings 9:28

9:28 They sailed ¹  to Ophir, took from there four hundred twenty talents ²  of gold, and then brought them to King Solomon.

Job 28:16

28:16 It cannot be measured out for purchase ³  with the gold of Ophir,

with precious onyx ⁴  or sapphires.

¹ tn Heb “went.”

² tn The Hebrew term כִּכָּר (kikkar, “circle”) refers generally to something that is round. When used of metals it can refer to a disk-shaped weight made of the metal or to a standard unit of weight, generally regarded as a talent. Since the accepted weight for a talent of metal is about 75 pounds, this would have amounted to about 31,500 pounds of gold (cf. NCV); CEV, NLT “sixteen tons”; TEV “more than 14,000 kilogrammes.”

³ tn The word actually means “weighed,” that is, lifted up on the scale and weighed, in order to purchase.

⁴ tn The exact identification of these stones is uncertain. Many recent English translations, however, have “onyx” and “sapphires.”