Gerah
A gerah Hebrew "גרה" is an ancient Hebrew unit of weight and
currency. One gerah is one-twentieth of a shekel. A shekel
being 180 barleycorns or 60 carob divided by 20 = 3 carob.
This is 0.568 grams.
A gerah is in Aramaic a ma'ah "מעה" (pl. ma'ot "מעות" which
means "money"). It was originally a fifth of a Denarius/Zuz as
seen in Exodus ("20 ge...
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ge'-ra (gerah, "grain" or "kernel"): A weight, the 20th part
of a shekel (Ex 30:13; Lev 27:25; Nu 3:47; 18:16; Ezek 45:12).
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-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
Ex 30:13; Le 27:25; Nu 3:47...
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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; Lev. 27:25;
Num.
3:47). This word came into use in the same way as our
word
"grain," from a grain of wheat....
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