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Webster 1913 Edition
Gerah
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Ge′rah
,Noun.
[Heb.
g[GREEK]rah
, lit., a bean.] (Jewish Antiq.)
A small coin and weight; 1-20th of a shekel.
☞ The silver gerah is supposed to have been worth about three cents; the gold about fifty-four cents; the weight equivalent to about thirteen grains.
Definition 2024
gerah
gerah
English
Noun
gerah (plural gerahs)
- An ancient Hebrew unit of weight and currency equal to one twentieth of a shekel.
- New International Version (NIV), Exodus 30:13
- "Each one who crosses over to those already counted is to give a half shekel, according to the sanctuary shekel, which weighs twenty gerahs."
- New International Version (NIV), Leviticus 27:25
- "Every value is to be set according to the sanctuary shekel, twenty gerahs to the shekel"
- New International Version (NIV), Exodus 30:13