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HebrewH1626Noun (Feminine)

גֵּרָה

ge.rah

5Occurrences
H1626Strong's #
Noun (Feminine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

a gerah or small weight (and coin)

from H1641 (גָּרַר) (as in H1625 (גֵּרָה)); properly, (like H1620 (גַּרְגַּר)) a kernel (round as if scraped), i.e.

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
gerah, a weight, a 20th part of a shekel, equal to the weight of 16 barley grains or 4 to 5 carob beans

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun (Feminine)

Morphology Code

H:N-F

Full Description

H:N-F

Occurrences

גֵּרָה appears 5 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Numbers
2
Exodus
1
Ezk
1
Leviticus
1

Key Passages

Exodus 30:13BSB

Everyone who crosses over to those counted must pay a half shekel, according to the sanctuary shekel, which weighs twenty gerahs. This half shekel is an offering to the LORD.

Ezk 45:12BSB

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Leviticus 27:25BSB

Every valuation will be according to the sanctuary shekel, twenty gerahs to the shekel.

Numbers 18:16BSB

You are to pay the redemption price for a month-old male according to your valuation: five shekels of silver, according to the sanctuary shekel, which is twenty gerahs.

Numbers 3:47BSB

you are to collect five shekels for each one, according to the sanctuary shekel of twenty gerahs.

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.