Meanings
noungerah (plural gerahs)
plural gerahs
- historicalAn ancient Hebrew unit of weight and currency, one twentieth of a shekel.
Every value is to be set according to the sanctuary shekel, twenty gerahs to the shekel.
New International Version (NIV), Leviticus 27:251 more example
Each one who crosses over to those already counted is to give a half shekel, according to the sanctuary shekel, which weighs twenty gerahs.
New International Version (NIV), Exodus 30:13
Origin
- Hebrewגֵּרָה“twentieth of a shekel”
- Englishgerah
From Hebrew גֵּרָה (gerá, “twentieth of a shekel”, literally “cud”).
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