Dram
אֲדַרְכֹּןStrong’s H0150adarkon (a-dar-kon)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Adarkon is the Hebrew word usually translated “darics”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“And gave for the service of the house of God of gold five thousand talents and ten thousand drams, and of silver ten thousand talents, and of brass eighteen thousand talents, and one hundred thousand talents of iron.”
Meaning
- Drachma, dram, daric-unit of weight and value (of gold, money) equal to 128 grains or 4.32 grams
How it's translated
- and darics 1
- of darics 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Chronicles 1
- Ezra 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
אֲדַרְכֹּן adarkon · dram
drachma, dram, daric-unit of weight and value (of gold, money) equal to 128 grains or 4.32 grams
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “dram” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
DRAM, noun
[contracted from drachma, which see.]
- Among druggists and physicians, a weight of the eighth part of an ounce, or sixty grains.
- A small quantity; as no dram of judgment.
- As much spirituous liquor as is drank at once; as a dram of brandy.
- Spirit; distilled liquor.
All definitions and other forms of “dram”
DRAM, verb intransitive
To drink drams; to indulge in the use of ardent spirit. [ A low word expressing a low practice.]
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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.