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Definition of Gerah
1. n. A small coin and weight; 1-20th of a shekel.
Definition of Gerah
1. Noun. an ancient Hebrew unit of weight and currency equal to one twentieth of a shekel ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Gerah
1. a Hebrew unit of weight [n -S]
Medical Definition of Gerah
1. 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. Origin: Heb. Grah, lit, a bean. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gerah
Literary usage of Gerah
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Eastern arts and antiquities mentioned in the sacred Scriptures (1840)
"The gerah, (Exod. xxx. 13; Lev. xxvii. 25,) or meah, was the sixth part of the
denarius, and the twenty-fourth part of the shekel. ..."
2. A Synopsis of Criticisms Upon Those Passages of the Old Testament in which by Richard Arthur Francis Barrett (1847)
"7 gerah, who removed them, ie, He was at the head ... Some think that not gerah,
but Abihud, or Ehud, is here to be understood. Booth. ..."
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