{"query": "Easton: Shekel", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_b824114e7478", "title": "Easton: Shekel", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Weight, the common standard both of weight and value among the Hebrews. It is estimated at 220 English grains, or a little more than half an ounce avoirdupois. The “shekel of the sanctuary” (Ex. 30:13", "authority_tier": "external_aligned", "source": "Matthew Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1897)", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_c_0c010fade627", "title": "Easton: Shekel references Saul", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Saul (person) — the name appears in the card text; the entry is Easton's Bible Dictionary (public domain), which classifies it as a person.", "authority_tier": "engine_derived", "source": "Name mention (Easton's Bible Dictionary, PD)", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_c_bca117e418ad", "title": "Easton: Shekel references Peter", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Peter (person) — the name appears in the card text; the entry is Easton's Bible Dictionary (public domain), which classifies it as a person.", "authority_tier": "engine_derived", "source": "Name mention (Easton's Bible Dictionary, PD)", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_c_e55e56aac126", "title": "Easton: Shekel references Samuel", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Samuel (person) — the name appears in the card text; the entry is Easton's Bible Dictionary (public domain), which classifies it as a person.", "authority_tier": "engine_derived", "source": "Name mention (Easton's Bible Dictionary, PD)", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_c_328272da326f", "title": "Easton: Shekel references Hebrews", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Card references Hebrews. Auto-detected via book-name match.", "authority_tier": "engine_derived", "source": "Auto-detected reference", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_c_4aed9e49f9c8", "title": "Easton: Shekel references Matthew", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Card references Matthew. Auto-detected via book-name match.", "authority_tier": "engine_derived", "source": "Auto-detected reference", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_1057856b55ff", "title": "Easton: Weights", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Reduced to English troy-weight, the Hebrew weights were: (1.) The gerah (Lev. 27:25; Num. 3:47), a Hebrew word, meaning a grain or kernel, and hence a small weight. It was the twentieth part of a shek", "authority_tier": "external_aligned", "source": "Matthew Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1897)", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_fa9c188fee47", "title": "Easton: Coin", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Before the Exile the Jews had no regularly stamped money. They made use of uncoined shekels or talents of silver, which they weighed out (Gen. 23:16; Ex. 38:24; 2 Sam. 18:12). Probably the silver ingo", "authority_tier": "external_aligned", "source": "Matthew Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1897)", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_9b0736f20d65", "title": "Easton: Money-changer", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Matt. 21:12; Mark 11:15; John 2:15). Every Israelite from twenty years and upwards had to pay (Ex. 30:13-15) into the sacred treasury half a shekel every year as an offering to Jehovah, and that in t", "authority_tier": "external_aligned", "source": "Matthew Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1897)", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_enc_easton_shekel", "title": "Shekel", "shelf": "encyclopedia", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Weight, the common standard both of weight and value among the Hebrews. It is estimated at 220 English grains, or a little more than half an ounce avoirdupois. The “shekel of the sanctuary” (Ex. 30:13", "authority_tier": "reference", "source": "Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897, public domain)", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_a67b94794cd8", "title": "Easton: Pieces", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1) of silver. In Ps. 68:30 denotes “fragments,” and not properly money. In 1 Sam. 2:36 (Heb. agorah), properly a “small sum” as wages, weighed rather than coined. Josh. 24:32 (Heb. kesitah, q.v.), su", "authority_tier": "external_aligned", "source": "Matthew Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1897)", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_46b0184d7dd3", "title": "Easton: Stater", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Greek word rendered “piece of money” (Matt. 17:27, A.V.; and “shekel” in R.V.). It was equal to two didrachmas (“tribute money,” 17:24), or four drachmas, and to about 2s. 6d. of our money. (See SHEKE", "authority_tier": "external_aligned", "source": "Matthew Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1897)", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_71d82ac3286f", "title": "Easton: Money", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Of uncoined money the first notice we have is in the history of Abraham (Gen. 13:2; 20:16; 24:35). Next, this word is used in connection with the purchase of the cave of Machpelah (23:16), and again i", "authority_tier": "external_aligned", "source": "Matthew Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1897)", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_src_etym_shekel", "title": "shekel", "shelf": "etymology", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "shekel: etymology (Webster 1913) — n.: [Heb. shegel, fr. shagal to weigh.]. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), public domain.", "authority_tier": "reference", "source": "Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), Project Gutenberg eBook #29765 — public domain", "readable": true, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_2a0709414d64", "title": "Easton: Taxes", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "First mentioned in the command (Ex. 30:11-16) that every Jew from twenty years and upward should pay an annual tax of “half a shekel for an offering to the Lord.” This enactment was faithfully observe", "authority_tier": "external_aligned", "source": "Matthew Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1897)", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_420182d06d27", "title": "Easton: Maneh", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Portion (Ezek. 45:12), rendered “pound” (1 Kings 10:17; Ezra 2:69; Neh. 7:71, 72), a weight variously estimated, probably about 2 1/2 or 3 lbs. A maneh of gold consisted of a hundred common shekels (q", "authority_tier": "external_aligned", "source": "Matthew Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1897)", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_e88360eb3bc1", "title": "Easton: Gerah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "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 ", "authority_tier": "external_aligned", "source": "Matthew Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1897)", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_10609ac53d2c", "title": "Easton: Pound", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) A weight. Heb. maneh, equal to 100 shekels (1 Kings 10:17; Ezra 2:69; Neh. 7:71, 72). Gr. litra, equal to about 12 oz. avoirdupois (John 12:3; 19:39). (2.) A sum of money; the Gr. mna or mina (Lu", "authority_tier": "external_aligned", "source": "Matthew Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1897)", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_4a98ab3212d9", "title": "Easton: Talent", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Of silver contained 3,000 shekels (Ex. 38:25, 26), and was equal to 94 3/7 lbs. avoirdupois. The Greek talent, however, as in the LXX., was only 82 1/4 lbs. It was in the form of a circular mass, as t", "authority_tier": "external_aligned", "source": "Matthew Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1897)", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_89f4aeeaf936", "title": "Easton: Ephron", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Fawn-like. (1.) The son of Zohar a Hittite, the owner of the field and cave of Machpelah (q.v.), which Abraham bought for 400 shekels of silver (Gen. 23:8-17; 25:9; 49:29, 30). (2.) 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