B14-B
Currency and Weight
Currency and Weight in the Hebrew Scriptures
Gerah (1⁄20 shekel)
0.57 g / 0.01835 oz t
10 gerahs = 1 bekah
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Bekah
5.7 g / 0.1835 oz t
2 bekahs = 1 shekel
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Pim
7.8 g / 0.2508 oz t
1 pim = 2⁄3 shekel
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Shekel weight
Shekel
11.4 g / 0.367 oz t
50 shekels = 1 mina
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Mina
570 g / 18.35 oz t
60 minas = 1 talent
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Talent
34.2 kg / 1,101 oz t
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Daric (Persian, gold)
8.4 g / 0.27 oz t
Ezra 8:27
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Currency and Weight in the Christian Greek Scriptures
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Lepton (Jewish, copper or bronze)
1⁄2 quadrans
Luke 21:2
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Quadrans (Roman, copper or bronze)
2 lepta
Matthew 5:26
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Assarion (Roman and provincial, copper or bronze)
4 quadrantes
Matthew 10:29
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Denarius (Roman, silver)
64 quadrantes
3.85 g / 0.124 oz t
Matthew 20:10
= 1 Day’s Wages (12 hours)
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Drachma (Greek, silver)
3.4 g / 0.109 oz t
Luke 15:8
= 1 Day’s Wages (12 hours)
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Didrachma (Greek, silver)
2 drachmas
6.8 g / 0.218 oz t
Matthew 17:24
= 2 Days’ Wages
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Tetradrachma of Antioch
Tetradrachma of Tyre (Silver shekel of Tyre)
Tetradrachma (Greek, silver; also called silver stater)
4 drachmas
13.6 g / 0.436 oz t
Matthew 17:27
= 4 Days’ Wages
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Mina
100 drachmas
340 g / 10.9 oz t
Luke 19:13
= about 100 days’ wages
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Talent
60 minas
20.4 kg / 654 oz t
Matthew 18:24
Revelation 16:21
= about 20 years’ wages
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Pound (Roman)
327 g / 11.5 oz
John 12:3
“A pound of perfumed oil, genuine nard”
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