Dict: smith - POUND

smith:

POUND - P>@ - A weight.
See WEIGHTS AND MEASURES AND MEASURES A sum of money put in the Old Testament, (Kings:10:17; kjv@Ezra:2:69; kjv@Nehemiah:7:71) for the Hebrew maneh , worth in silver about . In the parable of the ten pounds, kjv@Luke:19:12-27) the reference appears to be to a Greek pound, a weight used as a money of account, of which sixty went to the talent. It was worth to .