Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible lexical data / BDB-Strong mapping
דַּרְכְּמוֹן
- Transliteration
- ʼădarkôn
- Pronunciation
- ad-ar-kone'
- Language
- Hebrew
- Indexed occurrences
- 2
Glosses
drachma, daric, dram.
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Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible lexical data / BDB-Strong mapping
drachma, daric, dram.
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible lexical data / BDB-Strong mapping
drachma, daric, dram.
Greek lexical coverage
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Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897)
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Strong's Concordance
Indexed occurrences: 6
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Dictionary
In the Revised Version of 1 Chr. 29:7; Ezra 2:69; 8:27; Neh. 7:70-72, where the Authorized Version has "dram." It is the rendering of the Hebrew darkemon and the Greek dareikos. It was a gold coin, bearing the figure of a Persian King with his crown and armed with bow and arrow. It was current among the Jews after their return from Babylon, i.e., while under the Persian domination. It weighed about 128 grains troy, and was of the value of about one guinea or rather more of our money. It is the first coin mentioned in Scripture, and is the oldest that history makes known to us.
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The Authorized Version understood the word adarkonim (1 Chr. 29:7; Ezra 8:27), and the similar word darkomnim (Ezra 2:69; Neh. 7:70), as equivalent to the Greek silver coin the drachma. But the Revised Version rightly regards it as the Greek dareikos, a Persian gold coin (the daric) of the value of about 1 pound, 2s., which was first struck by Darius, the son of Hystaspes, and was current in Western Asia long after the fall of the Persian empire. (See [163]DARIC.)
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