...yes, if you call out for insight / and raise your voice for understanding, / if you seek it like silver / and search for it as for hidden treasures, / then you will understand the fear of the Lord / and find the knowledge of God. ... - Proverbs 2:3-5
Idols
Idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of human hands. They don't speak, nor have breath. Those who trust in them become like them. (Psalm 135:15-18)
Payments, Monetary Gifts, and Donations
After realizing he had taken Abraham's wife as his own, Abimelech gave sheep, oxen, and male and female servants to Abraham, and he told Sarah, "Behold, I have given your brother a thousand pieces of silver. It is a sign of your innocence in the eyes of all who are with you, and before everyone you are vindicated." (Genesis 20)
A quarter of a shekel of silver was the gift Saul's servant happened to have so they could ask Samuel about their journey, a circumstance that introduced Samuel to the first king. (1 Samuel 9:1-24)
Joab claimed he would have given the man who killed Absalom 10 pieces of silver, while the man who spotted Absalom claimed he wouldn't disobey King David's orders for 1000 pieces of silver. (2 Samuel 18:9-15)
King David purchased Araunah the Jebusite's threshing floor and oxen for fifty shekels of silver, for he would not offer burnt offerings that cost him nothing. (2 Samuel 24:18-25)
Solomon's vineyard keepers paid a thousand pieces of silver for its fruit. (Song of Solomon 8:11) The Shulammite gives Solomon the thousand and the keepers 200. (Song of Solomon 8:12)