Gerah in the Bible

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

  • Exodus 30:13 This they shall give, every one that passeth among them that are numbered, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary: (a shekel is twenty gerahs:) an half shekel shall be the offering of the LORD.
  • Leviticus 27:25 And all thy estimations shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs shall be the shekel.
  • Numbers 3:47 Thou shalt even take five shekels apiece by the poll, after the shekel of the sanctuary shalt thou take them: (the shekel is twenty gerahs:)

Bible Encyclopedia for GERAH.

See also McClintock and Strong Cyclopedia for Gerah.

 
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