{"query": "Easton: Shekel", "count": 16, "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"}, {"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"}, {"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"}, {"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"}, {"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"}, {"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"}, {"id": "card_c_328272da326f", "title": "Easton: Shekel references Hebrews", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Card references Hebrews. Auto-detected via book-name match."}, {"id": "card_c_4aed9e49f9c8", "title": "Easton: Shekel references Matthew", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Card references Matthew. Auto-detected via book-name match."}, {"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 "}, {"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."}, {"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."}, {"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."}, {"id": "card_n_8b457fcea58c", "title": "Easton: Nose-jewels", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Only mentioned in Isa. 3:21, although refered to in Gen. 24:47, Prov. 11:22, Hos. 2:13. They were among the most valued of ancient female ornaments. They “were made of ivory or metal, and occasionally"}, {"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"}, {"id": "card_n_dfd15e83af3f", "title": "Easton: Tribute", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A tax imposed by a king on his subjects (2 Sam. 20:24; 1 Kings 4:6; Rom. 13:6). In Matt. 17:24-27 the word denotes the temple rate (the “didrachma,” the “half-shekel,” as rendered by the R.V.) which w"}, {"id": "card_n_4a4852ad9a9e", "title": "Easton: Custom", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A tax imposed by the Romans. The tax-gatherers were termed publicans (q.v.), who had their stations at the gates of cities, and in the public highways, and at the place set apart for that purpose, cal"}]}