Word

δίδραχμον

dídrachmon · G1323 · Greek · 2 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. two-drachma piece, temple tax

    The tax required of every male Jew from the age of twenty onward; to support the temple

    Examples

    Matthew 17:24 Now when they came to Capernaum, those who collected the two-drachma tax came to Peter and said, “Does your teacher not pay the two-drachma tax?”

How it’s used In 1 role

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the word studied the word it goes with

What is done to itIt is the object

2 occurrences in 2 groups

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In the other Testament 1 word
שֶׁקֶל sheqel · H8255 · shekel
Hebrew שֶׁקֶל (shekel) is the standard monetary/weight unit that the Greek δίδραχμον (didrachm, a two-drachma coin) translates in LXX contexts where Hebrew currency terms are rendered into Greek equivalents.
Semantic domains 1 entry
Two-drachma piece, temple tax57.181
Used of the annual temple tax collected from Jewish men, as of the collectors of the two-drachma tax approaching Peter at Capernaum in Matthew 17:24.
Word family 21 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon διδράχμου, τό (neuter of the adjective δίδραχμος, δίδραχμον, namely, νόμισμα; from δίς…
διδράχμου, τό (neuter of the adjective δίδραχμος, δίδραχμον, namely, νόμισμα; from δίς and δραχμή), a didrachmon or double-drachma, a silver coin equal to two Attic drachmas or one Alexandrian, or half a shekel (about one third of a dollar) (see in ἀργύριον, 3): Mt 17:24. (the Sept. often for שֶׁקֶל; (Pollux, Galen).)

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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