Dict: easton - Weights

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Weights @ Reduced to English troy-weight, the Hebrew weights were:

(1.) The gerah kjv@Leviticus:27:25; kjv@Numbers:3:47), a Hebrew word, meaning a grain or kernel, and hence a small weight. It was the twentieth part of a shekel, and equal to 12 grains.

(2.) Bekah kjv@Exodus:38:26), meaning "a half" i.e., "half a shekel," equal to 5 pennyweight.

(3.) Shekel, "a weight," only in the Old Testament, and frequently in its original form kjv@Genesis:23:15-16; kjv@Exodus:21:32 kjv@Exodus:30:13-15 kjv@Exodus:38:24 -29, etc.). It was equal to 10 pennyweight.

(4.) Ma'neh, "a part" or "portion" kjv@Ezekiel:45:12), equal to 60 shekels, i.e., to 2 lbs. 6 oz.

(5.) Talent of silver ( kjv@2Kings:5:22), equal to 3,000 shekels, i.e., 125 lbs.

(6.) Talent of gold kjv@Exodus:25:39), double the preceding, i.e., 250 lbs.