Word

κοδράντης

kodrántēs · G2835 · Greek · 2 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. quadrans, penny

    A Roman copper coin worth 1/4 of an assarion or 1/64 of a denarius

    Examples

    Matthew 5:26 “Truly I say to you, you will not come out of there until you have paid up the last quadrans.

    Mark 12:42 And a poor widow came and put in two lepta coins, which amount to a quadrans.

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

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

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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Near synonyms 2 words
λεπτόν leptón · G3016 · lepton, tiny coin
Both refer to small copper coins of minimal value in the Roman/Jewish monetary system. λεπτόν (lepton) was the smallest Jewish coin, while κοδράντης (quadrans) was a Roman coin; they are nearly equivalent in value and function as terms for the smallest monetary unit.
ἀσσάριον assárion · G787 · assarion, penny
Both are small Roman copper coins. The ἀσσάριον (assarion/as) was worth more (about 1/16 of a denarius), while the κοδράντης was worth 1/4 of an as, making it smaller in value, but both occupy the same semantic field of minor coinage.
Semantic domains 1 entry
Quadrans, penny6.78
κοδράντης names a small Roman copper coin, a quadrans. Matthew 5:26 has Jesus warning that an imprisoned debtor “will not come out of there until you have paid up the last quadrans,” the κοδράντης naming this smallest unit of the debt still owed.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon κοδραντου (Buttmann, 17 (16)), ὁ; a Latin word, quadrans (i. e. the fourth part of an…
κοδραντου (Buttmann, 17 (16)), ὁ; a Latin word, quadrans (i. e. the fourth part of an as); in the N. T. a coin equal to one half the Attic chalcus or to two λεπτά (see λεπτόν): Mk 12:42; Mt 5:26. The word is fully discussed by Fischer, De vitiis lexamples N. T., p. 447ff (A. V. farthing; see BB. DD. under the word.)

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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