APPROXIMATE VALUES OF THE BIBLE

WEIGHTS, MEASURES, MONEY

 

Bath, about 9 gallons, unit of liquid measure

Bekah, ¼ of an ounce

Cab, 2 quarts

Cubit, about 18 inches

Daric, gold, $5; silver, 64 cents (same as shekel)

Day’s journey, about 20 miles

Denarius, 16 cents

Didrachma, 32 cents

Digit, ¾ of an inch

Drachma, 16 cents

Ephah, about 1 bushel, unit of dry measure

Farthing, ¼ cent, or 1 cent (two different Biblical words for “farthing”)

Fathom, 6 feet

Firkin, 9 gallons

Furlong, 1/8 of a mile

Gerah, 1/40 of an ounce

Half-shekel, 32 cents

Handbreadth, 3 inches

Hin, 6 quarts

Homer, 90 gallons liquid measure, 11 bushels dry measure

Kab, 2 quarts

Kor, 90 gallons, or 11 bushels

Lethech, about 5 ½ bushels

Log, 1 pint

Maneh, about 2 pounds

Mite, ⅛ of a cent

Omer, 7 pints

Pound, $16

Pound of silver, about $20, or $40 (two standards)

Pound of gold, about $300, or $600.  Ratio of gold to silver, 15 to 1

Reed, about 11 feet

Sabbath Day’s Journey, about 1 mile

Seah, 1 ½ pecks

Shekel, ½ ounce, unit of weight

Shekel, 64 cents, unit of money

Span, about 9 inches

Stadium, about 1/7 mile

Talent, about $1,000

Talent of silver, about 100 pounds, or 50 pounds; $1,250, or $2,500

Talent of gold, about 120 pounds, or 60 pounds, $20,000, or $40,000

 

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