Gerah
גֵּרָהStrong’s H1626gerah (ge-rah)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Gerah is the Hebrew word usually translated “gerah”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“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.”
Meaning
- Gerah, a weight, a 20th part of a shekel, equal to the weight of 16 barley grains or 4 to 5 carob beans
How it's translated
- gerah 5
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Numbers 2
- Exodus 1
- Leviticus 1
- Ezekiel 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Leviticus 27:25And all thy estimations shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs shall be the shekel.
- Numbers 3:47Thou 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 18:16And 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 45:12And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs: twenty shekels, five and twenty shekels, fifteen shekels, shall be your maneh.
Hebrew dictionary
גֵּרָה gerah · gerah
gerah, a weight, a 20th part of a shekel, equal to the weight of 16 barley grains or 4 to 5 carob beans
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.