τάλαντον
tálanton · G5007 · Greek · 14 occurrences
Thing
Meanings
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talent
A Greek monetary unit (also a unit of weight) with a value which fluctuated, depending upon the particular monetary system which prevailed at a particular period of time (a silver talent was worth approximately six thousand denarii with gold talents worth at least thirty times that much)
ExamplesMatthew 18:24 “And when he had begun to settle them, one who owed him ten thousand talents was brought to him.
Matthew 25:15 “To one he gave five talents, to another, two, and to another, one, each according to his own ability; and he went on his journey.
Matthew 25:16 “The one who had received the five talents immediately went and did business with them, and earned five more talents.
How it’s used In 5 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
- σύyou 1
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
12 occurrences in 6 groups
- πέντεfive 6
- δύοtwo 3
- ἄλλοςother, another 3
- δέκαten 1
- εἷςone 1
- μύριοιten thousand 1
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 2 groups
- ἔπωto say 1
- προσέρχομαιto come to, to approach 1
What is done to itIt is the object
12 occurrences in 11 groups
- λαμβάνωto receive, to take 3
- Other words · 10 groups that occur once or twice (12) 12
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ὀφειλέτηςdebtor, one under obligation 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.
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In the other Testament 1 word
- כִּכָּר kikkâr · H3603 · loaf, plain
- Hebrew כִּכָּר (kikkar) serves as the direct etymological and semantic equivalent of Greek τάλαντον in weight/monetary contexts, both denoting the large-scale unit of measure (talent) used in economic and royal-treasury passages across the biblical corpus.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Talent6.82
- Jesus teaches in a parable, “when he had begun to settle them, one who owed him ten thousand talents was brought to him” (Matthew 18:24).
Word family 31 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ταλάντου, τό (ΤΑΛΑΩ, ΤΛΑΩ (to bear)); 1. the scale of a balance, a balance, a pair of…
1. the scale of a balance, a balance, a pair of scales (Homer).
2. that which is weighed, a talent, i. e.
a. a weight, varying in different places and times.
b. a sum of money weighing a talent and varying in different states and according to the changes in the laws regulating the currency; the Attic talent was equal to 60 Attic minae or 6,000 drachmae, and worth about 200 pounds sterling or 1,000 dollars (cf. Liddell and Scott, under the word, II. 2 b.). But in the N. T. probably the Syrian talent is referred to, which was equal to about 237 dollars (but see BB. DD., under the word ): Mt 18:24; Mt 25:15f ( Lachmann), Mt 25:20, Mt 25:22, Mt 25:24f, Mt 25:28. (The Sept. for כִּכָּר, Luth. Centner, the heaviest Hebrew weight; on which see Kneucker in Schenkel v., p. 460f; (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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