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[align=center]APPROXIMATE VALUES OF THE BIBLE WEIGHTS, MEASURESand MONEY[/align]

Bath, about 9 gallons, unit of liquid measure

Bekah, ¼ of an ounce

Cab, 2 quarts

Cubit, about 18 inches

Daric, gold, $5; silver, 64 cents (same as shekel)

Day’s journey, about 20 miles

Denarius, 16 cents

Didrachma, 32 cents

Digit, ¾ of an inch

Drachma, 16 cents

Ephah, about 1 bushel, unit of dry measure

Farthing, ¼ cent, or 1 cent (two different Biblical words for “farthing”)

Fathom, 6 feet

Firkin, 9 gallons

Furlong, 1/8 of a mile

Gerah, 1/40 of an ounce

Half-shekel, 32 cents

Handbreadth, 3 inches

Hin, 6 quarts

Homer, 90 gallons liquid measure, 11 bushels dry measure

Kab, 2 quarts

Kor, 90 gallons, or 11 bushels

Lethech, about 5 ½ bushels

Log, 1 pint

Maneh, about 2 pounds

Mite, ⅛ of a cent

Omer, 7 pints

Pound, $16

Pound of silver, about $20, or $40 (two standards)

Pound of gold, about $300, or $600. Ratio of gold to silver, 15 to 1

Reed, about 11 feet

Sabbath Day’s Journey, about 1 mile

Seah, 1 ½ pecks

Shekel, ½ ounce, unit of weight

Shekel, 64 cents, unit of money

Span, about 9 inches

Stadium, about 1/7 mile

Talent, about $1,000

Talent of silver, about 100 pounds, or 50 pounds; $1,250, or $2,500

Talent of gold, about 120 pounds, or 60 pounds, $20,000, or $40,000


Atlas

Atlas,

Thank for posting this too. I will print this off.

Dave

Dave,

It will help you when you are preaching or teaching the Word of God.



Atlas

Atlas,

Yes, It will.

Dave

With regard to the value of coins mentioned in the Bible, that list is very much out of date.

A Denarius for example was a days pay. I don't know too many people who work for 16 cents a day.