Topic
Gerah
5 passages cited, from 4 classic reference works.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Exodus 30:13Easton · ISBE · Nave Also a coin equivalent to about three cents American money and three half-pence English money
This they shall give, every one that passeth among them that are numbered, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary: (a shekel is twenty gerahs:) an half shekel shall be the offering of the LORD.
- Leviticus 27:25Easton · ISBE · Nave Also a coin equivalent to about three cents American money and three half-pence English money
And all thy estimations shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs shall be the shekel.
- Numbers 3:47Easton · ISBE · Nave Also a coin equivalent to about three cents American money and three half-pence English money
Thou shalt even take five shekels apiece by the poll, after the shekel of the sanctuary shalt thou take them: (the shekel is twenty gerahs:)
- Numbers 18:16ISBE
And those that are to be redeemed from a month old shalt thou redeem, according to thine estimation, for the money of five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, which is twenty gerahs.
- Ezekiel 45:12ISBE
And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs: twenty shekels, five and twenty shekels, fifteen shekels, shall be your maneh.
In the reference works
Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · 3 references
A bean, probably of the carob tree, the smallest weight, and also the smallest piece of money, among the Hebrews, equal to the twentieth part of a shekel (Ex. 30:13; Lev. 27:25; Num. 3:47). This word came into use in the same way as our word “grain,” from a grain of wheat.
Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884) · 0 references
In the topical indexes
Texts: Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897); Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884); International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915); Nave's Topical Bible (1896), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.