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Definition of Gerahs
1. gerah [n] - See also: gerah
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gerahs
Literary usage of Gerahs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East: With Historical Surveys by Charles Francis Horne (1917)
"If any one hire a day laborer, he shall pay him from the New Year until the fifth
month 87 six gerahs in money per day; from the sixth ..."
2. The Protestant Theological and Ecclesiastical Encyclopedia by John Henry Augustus Bomberger, Johann Jakob Herzog (1860)
"... to the Lord, or redeem ¡t with five shekels, after the shekels of the sanctuary,
which is twenty gerahs?" answers, that he will redeem him. ..."
3. The Englishman's Hebrew and Chaldee Concordance of the Old Testament by George V. Wigram (1866)
"2», :JO, 32, 34, 36, 38, 40, 25. twenty gerahs shall be the shekel. 42,45. ...
47.the shekel (is) twenty gerahs: 7:86.an hundred and twenty (shekels). ..."
4. A Dictionary of the Bible by John D. Davis (1911)
"In weight a shekel equaled 20 gerahs. and a maneh was 20 -f 25 + 15 = 60 shekels
... The shekel equaled twenty gerahs (Ex. xxx. 13). The shekel of silver, ..."
5. The Englishman's Hebrew and Chaldee concordance of the Old Testament[based by William De Burgh (1860)
"18:16. which (is) twenty gerahs. Eze. ... (is) twenty geralis: Lev.27:25.
twenty gerahs shall be the shekel. Nu. 3:47.the shekel (is) twenty gerahs: Ps. ..."
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