a teradrachmon or four drachmae, originally 224 grains, in Tyrian currency, but reduced in weight somewhat by the time recorded in Mat 17:24<\/span>; the value was about three shillings, and would pay the Temple tax for two persons, Mat 17:27<\/span>, RV, “shekel” (AV, “a piece of money”); in some mss., Mat 26:16<\/span>; see MONEY, Note. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n “a half-shekel” (i.e., dis, “twice,” drachme, “a drachma,” the coin mentioned in Luk 15:8-9<\/span>), was the amount of the tribute in the 1st cent., A.D., due from every adult Jew for the maintenance of the Temple services, Mat 17:24<\/span> (twice). This was based on Exo 30:13<\/span>, Exo 30:24<\/span> (see also Exo 38:24-26<\/span>; Lev 5:15<\/span>; Lev 27:3<\/span>, Lev 27:25<\/span>; Num 3:47<\/span>, Num 3:50<\/span>; Num 7:13<\/span> ff.; Num 18:16<\/span>). <\/p>\n Shekel, half Shekel a teradrachmon or four drachmae, originally 224 grains, in Tyrian currency, but reduced in weight somewhat by the time recorded in Mat 17:24; the value was about three shillings, and would pay the Temple tax for two persons, Mat 17:27, RV, “shekel” (AV, “a piece of money”); in some mss., Mat 26:16; … Continue reading “Shekel, half Shekel”<\/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-84213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84213","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=84213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Fuente: Vine’s Dictionary of New Testament Words<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"