Topic
Weights
42 passages cited, from 3 classic reference works.
These works date from 1896–1897 and are in the public domain. They reflect the Protestant scholarship of their time: their history, archaeology and dates can be out of date, and where they interpret, other traditions read the text differently. The verses are shown in the King James Version, the wording these works were written against.
The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Genesis 23:16Easton · Torrey Value of money estimated according to
And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver, which he had named in the audience of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant.
- Exodus 30:13Easton · Torrey MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE — Gerah
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 19:35Nave · Torrey Must be just
¶ Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure.
- Leviticus 19:36Nave · Torrey Must be just
Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt.
- Ezekiel 45:12Easton · Torrey MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE — Gerah
And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs: twenty shekels, five and twenty shekels, fifteen shekels, shall be your maneh.
- Micah 6:11Nave · Torrey Must be just
Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?
- Genesis 23:15Easton
My lord, hearken unto me: the land is worth four hundred shekels of silver; what is that betwixt me and thee? bury therefore thy dead.
- Genesis 24:22Torrey MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE — Bekah or half shekel
And it came to pass, as the camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden earring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold;
- Genesis 43:21Torrey Value of money estimated according to
And it came to pass, when we came to the inn, that we opened our sacks, and, behold, every man’s money was in the mouth of his sack, our money in full weight: and we have brought it again in our hand.
- Exodus 21:32Easton
If the ox shall push a manservant or a maidservant; he shall give unto their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.
- Exodus 25:39Easton
Of a talent of pure gold shall he make it, with all these vessels.
- Exodus 30:15Easton
The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel, when they give an offering unto the LORD, to make an atonement for your souls.
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- Exodus 30:24 Torrey Generally regulated by the standard of the sanctuary
- Exodus 37:24 Torrey All metals were given by
- Exodus 38:24–29 Easton
- Exodus 38:26 Easton
- Leviticus 26:26 Torrey Provisions were sold by, in times of scarcity
- Leviticus 27:25 Easton
- Numbers 3:47 Easton
- Deuteronomy 25:13–15 Nave Must be just
- Deuteronomy 25:13 Torrey THE JEWS — Forbidden to have various
- Deuteronomy 25:14 Torrey THE JEWS — Forbidden to have various
- 2 Samuel 12:30 Torrey MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE — Talent
- 2 Samuel 14:26 Torrey Sometimes regulated by the king's standard
- 2 Kings 5:22 Easton
- 1 Chronicles 28:14 Torrey All metals were given by
- Nehemiah 7:70 Torrey MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE — Dram
- Nehemiah 7:71 Torrey MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE — Dram
- Job 28:25 Torrey ILLUSTRATIVE — Of the restraints put on the elements
- Job 31:6 Torrey Were frequently used in scales or balances
- Proverbs 11:1 Nave Must be just
- Proverbs 16:11 Nave Must be just
- Proverbs 20:10 Nave Must be just
- Proverbs 20:23 Nave Must be just
- Isaiah 40:12 Torrey Were frequently used in scales or balances
- Jeremiah 32:9 Torrey Value of money estimated according to
- Ezekiel 4:10 Torrey Provisions were sold by, in times of scarcity
- Ezekiel 4:16 Torrey Provisions were sold by, in times of scarcity
- Micah 6:10 Nave Must be just
- 2 Corinthians 4:17 Torrey ILLUSTRATIVE — (Heavy,) of the exceeding glory reserved for saints
- Hebrews 12:1 Torrey ILLUSTRATIVE — Of sins
- Revelation 16:21 Torrey MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE — Talent
In the reference works
Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · 12 references
Reduced to English troy-weight, the Hebrew weights were: (1.) The gerah (Lev. 27:25; Num. 3:47), a Hebrew word, meaning a grain or kernel, and hence a small weight. It was the twentieth part of a shekel, and equal to 12 grains.
(2.) Bekah (Ex. 38:26), meaning “a half” i.e., “half a shekel,” equal to 5 pennyweight.
(3.) Shekel, “a weight,” only in the Old Testament, and frequently in its original form (Gen. 23:15, 16; Ex. 21:32; 30:13, 15; 38:24-29, etc.). It was equal to 10 pennyweight.
(4.) Ma’neh, “a part” or “portion” (Ezek. 45:12), equal to 60 shekels, i.e., to 2 lbs. 6 oz.
(5.) Talent of silver (2 Kings 5:22), equal to 3,000 shekels, i.e., 125 lbs.
(6.) Talent of gold (Ex. 25:39), double the preceding, i.e., 250 lbs.
In the topical indexes
Nave's Topical Bible (1896) · 9 references, grouped by sub-topic
Torrey's New Topical Textbook (1897) · 31 references, grouped by sub-topic
- Generally regulated by the standard of the sanctuary Ex 30:24
- Sometimes regulated by the king's standard 2Sa 14:26
- Were frequently used in scales or balances Job 31:6; Isa 40:12
- MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE
- Value of money estimated according to Ge 23:16; 43:21; Jer 32:9
- All metals were given by Ex 37:24; 1Ch 28:14
- Provisions were sold by, in times of scarcity Le 26:26; Eze 4:10,16
- THE JEWS
- ILLUSTRATIVE
Texts: Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897); Nave's Topical Bible (1896); Torrey's New Topical Textbook (1897), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.