Talent
כִּכֵּרStrong’s H3604kikker (kik-ker)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Kikker is the Aramaic word usually translated “talents”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Unto an hundred talents of silver, and to an hundred measures of wheat, and to an hundred baths of wine, and to an hundred baths of oil, and salt without prescribing how much.”
Meaning
- Talent
How it's translated
- talents 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezra 1
1 book in all.
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Aramaic dictionary
כִּכֵּר kikker · talent
talent Aramaic of kik.kar (כִּכָּר "talent" H3603H)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “talent” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
TAL'ENT, noun
[Latin talentum; Gr. to bear, allied to Latin tollo. The word is said to have originally signified a balance or scales.]
- Among the ancients, a weight, and a coin.
- talent among the Hebrews, was also a gold coin, the same with a shekel of gold; called also stater, and weighing only four drachmas.
- Faculty; natural gift or endowment; a metaphorical application of the word, said to be borrowed from the Scriptural parable of the talents. Matthew 25:24
- Eminent abilities; superior genius; as, he is a man of talents.
All definitions
- Particular faculty; skill.
- [Sp. talante, manner of performing any thing, will, disposition.] Quality; disposition.
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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.