Word

גֵּרָה

gêrâh · H1626 · Hebrew · 5 occurrences

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GerahWeights5 verses

Meanings

a gerah

A weight of approximately 0.6 grams, by the sanctuary standard 20 gerahs making 1 shekel and 10 gerahs making 1 beka, used for weighing gold and silver

Examples
Exodus 30:13 “This is what everyone who is counted shall give: half a shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel is twenty gerahs), half a shekel as a contribution to the LORD.
Leviticus 27:25 ‘Every assessment of yours, moreover, shall be by the shekel of the sanctuary. The shekel shall be twenty gerahs.
Numbers 3:47 you shall take five shekels apiece, per head; you shall take them in terms of the shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel is twenty gerahs),

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

5 occurrences in 1 groups

עֶשְׂרִיםtwenty 5

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

הָיָהto be, to become 1

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

4 occurrences in 2 groups

שֶׁקֶלshekel 3
הוּאhe, she, it 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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Semantic domains 1 entry

Weight002001001070: גֵּרָה denotes a gerah, a small unit of weight used for the sanctuary shekel, as at Exodus 30:13 — "half a shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel is twenty gerahs)" — and Leviticus 27:25 — "the shekel shall be twenty gerahs."

Word family 7 words

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

גָּרַר gârar · H1641 · to drag away, to pull up, to chew the cud · 4×גֵּרָה gêrâh · H1625 · cud, gerah · 11×גָּרוֹן gârôwn · H1627 · throat, neck · 8×גֵּרָהgêrâh · H1626גַּרְגְּרוֹת gargᵉrôwth · H1621 · throat, neck · 4×מְגֵרָה mᵉgêrâh · H4050 · stone plane, stone file · 4×גַּרְגַּר gargar · H1620 · ripe olive · 1×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1626. gerah II. גֵּרָה noun feminine a weight, 20th part of shekel, gerah (Assyrian…

H1626. gerah
II. גֵּרָה noun feminine a weight, 20th part of shekel, gerah (Assyrian girû, ZehnpfBAS i. 506) — גֵּרָה Exo 30:13 Exo 30:4t. — Only in definition of שֶׁקֶל, with number עֶשְׂרִים Exo 30:13; Lev 27:25; Num 3:47; Num 18:16; Eze 45:12.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

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