Word

δραχμή

drachmḗ · G1406 · Greek · 3 occurrences

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DrachmaGreek coins7 verses

Meanings

drachma

A Greek silver coin with approximately the same value as the denarius

Examples
Luke 15:8 “Or what woman, if she has ten silver coins and loses one coin, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and search carefully until she finds it?
Luke 15:9 “And when she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors, saying, ‘Rejoice with me, because I have found the coin which I had lost!’

How it’s used In 3 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

2 occurrences in 2 groups

δέκαten 1
εἷςone 1

Named alongside itApposition

1 occurrences in 1 groups

ἀπόλλυμιto destroy, to perish, to lose 1

What is done to itIt is the object

3 occurrences in 3 groups

εὑρίσκωto find, to discover 1
ἔχωto have 1
ἀπόλλυμιto destroy, to perish, to lose 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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.

Semantic domains 1 entry

Drachma6.76: Used of a small silver coin representing a modest sum, as of the woman with ten silver coins who loses one and searches carefully until she finds it in Luke 15:8-9.

Word family 3 words

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

δράσσομαι drássomai · G1405 · to catch, to trap, to seize · 1×δραχμήdrachmḗ · G1406

Also from the root δράσσομαι

δίδραχμον dídrachmon · G1323 · two-drachma piece, temple tax · 2×

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon δραχμης, ἡ (δράσσομαι (hence, properly, a grip, a handful)) (from Herodotus down), a…

δραχμης, ἡ (δράσσομαι (hence, properly, a grip, a handful)) (from Herodotus down), a drachma, a silver coin of (nearly) the same weight as the Roman denarius (see δηνάριον): Lk 15:8f.

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Money and Monetary Units3 occurrences

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