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 .<\/p>\n
(, 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.<\/p>\n
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<\/span>; Lev. 27:25<\/span>; Num. 3:47<\/span>). This word came into use in the same way as our word “grain,” from a grain of wheat.<\/p>\n GERAH, the twentieth part of the shekel (Exo 30:13, Lev 27:25 etc.). See Money, 3; Weights And Measures, iii.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n 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).<\/p>\n See WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n Exo 30:13<\/span>; Lev 27:25<\/span>; Num 3:47<\/span> <\/p>\n Ge’rah. See Weights and Measures.<\/p>\n one-twentieth of a shekel<\/p>\n Exo 30:13<\/span>; Lev 27:25<\/span><\/p>\n –SEE<\/strong> Tables, 3536<\/p>\n 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, … Continue reading “GERAH”<\/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-50403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50403","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=50403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Fuente: Easton’s Bible Dictionary<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Gerah, <\/h2>\n
Fuente: Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Gerah<\/h2>\n
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Gerah<\/h2>\n
Fuente: Popular Cyclopedia Biblical Literature<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Gerah<\/h2>\n
Fuente: Concise Bible Dictionary <\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Gerah<\/h2>\n
Fuente: Nave’s Topical Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Gerah<\/h2>\n
Fuente: Smith’s Bible Dictionary<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
GERAH<\/h2>\n
Fuente: Thompson Chain-Reference Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"