1626. gerah
Lexicon
gerah: gerahs

Original Word: גֵּרָה
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Transliteration: gerah
Pronunciation: geh-raw'
Phonetic Spelling: (gay-raw')
KJV: gerah
NASB: gerahs
Word Origin: [from H1641 (גָּרַר - drag them away) (as in H1625 (גֵּרָה - cud))]

1. (properly) (like H1620) a kernel (round as if scraped), i.e. a gerah or small weight (and coin)

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
gerah

From garar (as in gerah); properly, (like gargar) a kernel (round as if scraped), i.e. A gerah or small weight (and coin) -- gerah.

see HEBREW garar

see HEBREW gerah

see HEBREW gargar

NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin
from garar
Definition
a gerah (one-twentieth of a shekel)
NASB Translation
gerahs (5).

Brown-Driver-Briggs
II. גֵּרָה noun feminine a weight, 20th part of shekel, gerah (Assyrian girû, ZehnpfBAS i. 506) — גֵּרָה Exodus 30:13 4t. — Only in definition of שֶׁקֶל, with number עֶשְׂרִים Exodus 30:13; Leviticus 27:25; Numbers 3:47; Numbers 18:16; Ezekiel 45:12.

Forms and Transliterations
גֵּרָ֑ה גֵּרָ֖ה גֵּרָה֙ גרה gê·rāh geRah gêrāh
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Exodus 30:13
HEB: הַקֹּ֑דֶשׁ עֶשְׂרִ֤ים גֵּרָה֙ הַשֶּׁ֔קֶל מַחֲצִ֣ית
NAS: is twenty gerahs), half
KJV: [is] twenty gerahs:) an half
INT: of the sanctuary is twenty gerah shekel half

Leviticus 27:25
HEB: הַקֹּ֑דֶשׁ עֶשְׂרִ֥ים גֵּרָ֖ה יִהְיֶ֥ה הַשָּֽׁקֶל׃
NAS: The shekel shall be twenty gerahs.
KJV: twenty gerahs shall be the shekel.
INT: of the sanctuary shall be twenty gerahs become the shekel

Numbers 3:47
HEB: תִּקָּ֔ח עֶשְׂרִ֥ים גֵּרָ֖ה הַשָּֽׁקֶל׃
NAS: (the shekel is twenty gerahs),
KJV: [is] twenty gerahs:)
INT: shall take is twenty gerah shekel

Numbers 18:16
HEB: הַקֹּ֑דֶשׁ עֶשְׂרִ֥ים גֵּרָ֖ה הֽוּא׃
NAS: which is twenty gerahs.
KJV: which [is] twenty gerahs.
INT: of the sanctuary is twenty gerahs which

Ezekiel 45:12
HEB: וְהַשֶּׁ֖קֶל עֶשְׂרִ֣ים גֵּרָ֑ה עֶשְׂרִ֨ים שְׁקָלִ֜ים
NAS: shall be twenty gerahs; twenty
KJV: [shall be] twenty gerahs: twenty
INT: the shekel shall be twenty gerahs twenty shekels

5 Occurrences

Strong's Hebrew 1626
5 Occurrences


gê·rāh — 5 Occ.

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