GERAH
GERAH
The smallest weight or coin among the Jews, the twentieth part of a shekel, and worth about two and a half cents, Exo 30:13 .
Fuente: American Tract Society Bible Dictionary
Gerah
(, gerah’, a berry or granule [compare English “barley-corn” and “grain” as measure and weight]; Sept. , Vulgate obolus), the smallest weight, and likewise the smallest piece of money among the Hebrews, equivalent to the twentieth part of a shekel (Exo 30:13; Lev 27:25; Num 3:47; Num 18:16; Eze 45:12). It would therefore weigh 13.5 Paris grains, and be worth about 3 cents. The same Hebrew word also signifies cud, as being a round mass. It has been supposed by many that the gerah was so called from the fact that some kernel, as of pepper or barley, or perhaps the seeds of the carobtree () may have been originally used for this weight, but it would be equal in weight to 4 or 5 beans of the carob, and, according to the Rabbins, it weighed as much as 16 grains of barley. SEE METROLOGY.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Gerah
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.
Fuente: Easton’s Bible Dictionary
Gerah,
GERAH, the twentieth part of the shekel (Exo 30:13, Lev 27:25 etc.). See Money, 3; Weights And Measures, iii.
Fuente: Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible
Gerah
gera (, gerah, grain or kernel): A weight, the 20th part of a shekel (Exo 30:13; Lev 27:25; Num 3:47; Num 18:16; Eze 45:12). See WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Gerah
Gerah, the smallest piece of money among the Hebrews. Twenty made a shekel; one of them would therefore be worth three halfpence, according to the present value of silver (Exo 30:13).
Fuente: Popular Cyclopedia Biblical Literature
Gerah
See WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.
Fuente: Concise Bible Dictionary
Gerah
A weight equal to thirteen and seven tenths grains, Paris. Also a coin equivalent to about three cents American money, and three half-pence English money.
Exo 30:13; Lev 27:25; Num 3:47
Fuente: Nave’s Topical Bible
Gerah
Ge’rah. See Weights and Measures.
Fuente: Smith’s Bible Dictionary
GERAH
one-twentieth of a shekel
Exo 30:13; Lev 27:25
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