Strong's Hebrew Concordance

H1626: גֵּרָה

gêrâh · pronounced gay-raw' · “gerah”

Definition

a gerah or small weight (and coin)

KJV translates it as: gerah.

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

Extended definition

gerah, a weight, a 20th part of a shekel, equal to the weight of 16 barley grains or 4 to 5 carob beans

Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).

How H1626 is translated

  • gerahs ×5

Bible verses with H1626 (gêrâh)

Gêrâh appears in 5 verses.

  • Exodus 30:13

    This they shall give, every one that passeth among them that are numbered, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary: (a shekel is twenty gerahs:) an half shekel shall be the offering of the Lord.

  • Leviticus 27:25

    And all thy estimations shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs shall be the shekel.

  • Numbers 3:47

    Thou shalt even take five shekels apiece by the poll, after the shekel of the sanctuary shalt thou take them: (the shekel is twenty gerahs:)

  • Numbers 18:16

    And those that are to be redeemed from a month old shalt thou redeem, according to thine estimation, for the money of five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, which is twenty gerahs.

  • Ezekiel 45:12

    And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs: twenty shekels, five and twenty shekels, fifteen shekels, shall be your maneh.

Words derived from H1626