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Coin

στατήρStrong’s G4715

statēr

Appears in 1 verse of the New Testament

In short

Statēr is the Greek word usually translated “four-drachma coin”. It appears in 1 verse of the New Testament.

“Notwithstanding, lest we should offend them, go thou to the sea, and cast an hook, and take up the fish that first cometh up; and when thou hast opened his mouth, thou shalt find a piece of money: that take, and give unto them for me and thee.”
Matthew 17:27 KJV
Meaning

Usually translated “four-drachma coin”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated
  • a four-drachma coin 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Matthew 1

1 book in all.

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    Greek dictionary

    στατήρ statēr · coin

    στατήρ, -ῆρος, ὁ [in Aq., Sm., for מִשְׁקָל ;] a stater; (a) a weight; (b) a coin (used by late writers of the Greek τετράδραχμον): Mat.17:27 26:16, WH, mg.† (AS)

    From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

    Webster's 1828 Dictionary

    How the English word “coin” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

    COIN, noun

    1. A corner; a jutting point, as of a wall.
    2. A wedge for raising or lowering a piece of ordnance.
    3. A wedge or piece of wood to lay between casks on shipboard.
    All definitions and other forms of “coin”

      COIN, noun

      Primarily, the die employed for stamping money. Hence,

      1. Money stamped; a piece of metal, as gold, silver, copper, or other metal, converted into money, by impressing on it marks, figures or characters.
      2. In architecture, a kind of die cut diagonally, after the manner of a flight of a stair case, serving at bottom to support columns in a level, and at top to correct the inclination of an entablature supporting a vault.
      3. That which serves for payment.

      COIN, verb transitive

      1. To stamp a metal, and convert it into money; to mint.
      2. To make; as, to coin words.
      3. To make; to forge; to fabricate; in an ill sense; as, to coin a lie; to coin a fable.

      Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

      Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.