Coin
קְשִׂיטָהStrong’s H7192qesitah (qe-si-tah)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Qesitah is the Hebrew word usually translated “piece of money”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“And he bought a parcel of a field, where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for an hundred pieces of money.”
Meaning
- A unit of unknown valueperhaps weight, money
How it's translated
- piece of money 2
- a piece of money 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 1
- Joshua 1
- Job 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Joshua 24:32And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, buried they in Shechem, in a parcel of ground which Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for an hundred pieces of silver: and it became the inheritance of the children of Joseph.
- Job 42:11Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him in his house: and they bemoaned him, and comforted him over all the evil that the LORD had brought upon him: every man also gave him a piece of money, and every one an earring of gold.
Hebrew dictionary
קְשִׂיטָה qesitah · coin
1) a unit of unknown value 1a) perhaps weight, money
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “coin” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
COIN, noun
- A corner; a jutting point, as of a wall.
- A wedge for raising or lowering a piece of ordnance.
- A wedge or piece of wood to lay between casks on shipboard.
All definitions and other forms of “coin”
COIN, noun
Primarily, the die employed for stamping money. Hence,
- Money stamped; a piece of metal, as gold, silver, copper, or other metal, converted into money, by impressing on it marks, figures or characters.
- In architecture, a kind of die cut diagonally, after the manner of a flight of a stair case, serving at bottom to support columns in a level, and at top to correct the inclination of an entablature supporting a vault.
- That which serves for payment.
COIN, verb transitive
- To stamp a metal, and convert it into money; to mint.
- To make; as, to coin words.
- To make; to forge; to fabricate; in an ill sense; as, to coin a lie; to coin a fable.
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.