Mina
מְנֵאStrong’s H4488mene (me-ne)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Mene is the Hebrew word usually translated “minas” and “mina”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“And he made three hundred shields of beaten gold; three pound of gold went to one shield: and the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.”
Meaning
- (P'al) mina, maneha weight or measurement; usually 50 shekels but maybe 60 shekels
How it's translated
- minas 4
- the mina 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Nehemiah 2
- 1 Kings 1
- Ezra 1
- Ezekiel 1
4 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Ezra 2:69They 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.
- 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.
- Ezekiel 45:12And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs: twenty shekels, five and twenty shekels, fifteen shekels, shall be your maneh.
Hebrew dictionary
מְנֵא mene · mina
1) (P'al) mina, maneh 1a) a weight or measurement; usually 50 shekels but maybe 60 shekels
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “mina” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
MI'NA, noun
[Latin mina ]
A weight or denomination of money. The mina of the Old Testament was valued at sixty shekels. The Greek or Attic mina was valued at a hundred drachmas, about f2. l7s.sterling, $10.44 cents.
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.