Drachma
דַּרְכְּמוֹןStrong’s H1871darkemon (dar-ke-mon)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Darkemon is the Hebrew word usually translated “drachmas”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“They gave after their ability unto the treasure of the work threescore and one thousand drams of gold, and five thousand pound of silver, and one hundred priests’ garments.”
Meaning
- Daric, drachma, dram, unit of measurea gold coin current in Palestine in the period after the return from Babylon; 128 grains (8.32 grams) of gold and 128 grains of silver
How it's translated
- drachmas 4
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Nehemiah 3
- Ezra 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Nehemiah 7:70And some of the chief of the fathers gave unto the work. The Tirshatha gave to the treasure a thousand drams of gold, fifty basons, five hundred and thirty priests’ garments.
- Nehemiah 7:71And some of the chief of the fathers gave to the treasure of the work twenty thousand drams of gold, and two thousand and two hundred pound of silver.
- Nehemiah 7:72And that which the rest of the people gave was twenty thousand drams of gold, and two thousand pound of silver, and threescore and seven priests’ garments.
Hebrew dictionary
דַּרְכְּמוֹן darkemon · drachma
1) daric, drachma, dram, unit of measure 1a) a gold coin current in Palestine in the period after the return from Babylon; 128 grains (8.32 grams) of gold and 128 grains of silver
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “drachma” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
DRACHMA, noun
[Latin, Gr.]
- A Grecian coin.
- The eighth part of an ounce, or sixty grains, or three scruples; a weight used by apothecaries, but usually written dram.
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.