{"id":42787,"date":"2022-09-28T14:26:37","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T19:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/didrachm\/"},"modified":"2022-09-28T14:26:37","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T19:26:37","slug":"didrachm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/didrachm\/","title":{"rendered":"Didrachm"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Didrachm<\/h2>\n<p>(Greek , Lat. didrachma  double drachma, tribute, Mat 17:24), a silver coin equal to two Attic drachmae, and also to the Jewish half shekel (Joseph. Ant. 3, 8, 2). It was therefore equivalent to about Isaiah 4 d. sterling, or 30 cents. SEE DRAM; SEE STATER. <\/p>\n<p>By the law every Jew was required to pay half a shekel to the Temple (Exo 30:13 sq.), and this amount is represented by the didrachma in Mat 17:24, where it is used for the tribute-money demanded of Christ (compare Josephus, Ant. 18:9, 1). The Septuagint everywhere renders the shekel of the Old Testament by didrachma; but a the Attic drachma was equal to only half a shekel, it seems from this probable that the drachma of Alexandria was equal to two Attic drachmae, or one of Egina. See Frentz, De didrachmis a Christo solutis (Vitebh 1737); Schmidt, id. (Argent. 1701; Lips. 1757; also in his Dispp. p. 796-863); Leisner, Illustratio loci Matthew (Fridericopol. 1794); Paulus, Erwerbungsmittel des Stater (in his Theol. Journ. 1795, p. 859-73, 931-45). SEE TRIBUTE.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<h2>Didrachm<\/h2>\n<p>DIDRACHM.See Money.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: A Dictionary Of Christ And The Gospels<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Didrachm (Greek , Lat. didrachma double drachma, tribute, Mat 17:24), a silver coin equal to two Attic drachmae, and also to the Jewish half shekel (Joseph. Ant. 3, 8, 2). It was therefore equivalent to about Isaiah 4 d. sterling, or 30 cents. SEE DRAM; SEE STATER. By the law every Jew was required to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/didrachm\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Didrachm&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}