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κέρμα

kérma · G2772 · Greek · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. coin, change

    Coins of lesser value

    Examples

    John 2:15 And He made a whip of cords, and drove them all out of the temple area, with the sheep and the oxen; and He poured out the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables;

How it’s used In 2 roles

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

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

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.

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Semantic domains 1 entry
Coin, change6.71
κέρμα denotes a piece of minted money, small change used by money changers. John 2:15 describes Jesus in the temple, where He “poured out the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables,” the κέρματα scattered from their tables in that act of cleansing.
Word family 3 words

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

κείρω keírō · G2751 · to cut hair, to shear · 4×κέρμαkérma · G2772κερματιστής kermatistḗs · G2773 · moneychanger · 1×
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon κερματος, τό (κείρω to cut into bits), small pieces of money, small coin, change;…
κερματος, τό (κείρω to cut into bits), small pieces of money, small coin, change; generally and collectively, τό κέρμα money: Jn 2:15, where L marginal reading Tr WH τά κερματα; (Aristophanes, Demosthenes, Josephus, others). Cf. the full exhibition of the use of the word given by Fischer, De vitiis lexicorum N. T. etc., p. 264ff

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Money and Monetary Units1 occurrence

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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