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# גֵּרָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1626

**a weight** — used 5 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

a weight [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1626/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גֵּרָה³: n.f. gerah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1626/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. a weight, 20th part of shekel, gerah (Assyrian girû, ZehnpfundBAS i. 506)—גֵּרָה Ex 30:13 + 4 times—Only in definition of שֶׁקֶל, c. num. עֶשְׂרִים Ex 30:13; Lv 27:25; Nu 3:47; 18:16; Ez 45:12.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: gerah\[s\] (5).

## In the verses

[Leviticus 27:25](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.27.25/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.27.25/#tree)

וְכָל־עֶרְכְּךָ֔ יִהְיֶ֖ה בְּשֶׁ֣קֶל הַקֹּ֑דֶשׁ עֶשְׂרִ֥ים גֵּרָ֖ה יִהְיֶ֥ה הַשָּֽׁקֶל׃ס

*Word for word:* and every valuation your it.will.be by the.shekel of the.holy.place twenty gerah\[s\] it.will.be the shekel

*JPS 1917:* And all thy valuations shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary; twenty gerahs shall be the shekel.

[Numbers 3:47](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.3.47/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.3.47/#tree)

וְלָקַחְתָּ֗ חֲמֵ֧שֶׁת חֲמֵ֛שֶׁת שְׁקָלִ֖ים לַגֻּלְגֹּ֑לֶת בְּשֶׁ֤קֶל הַקֹּ֙דֶשׁ֙ תִּקָּ֔ח עֶשְׂרִ֥ים גֵּרָ֖ה הַשָּֽׁקֶל׃

*Word for word:* and you.will.take five five shekels for the head by the.shekel of the.holy.place you.will.take \[is\].twenty gerah\[s\] the shekel

*JPS 1917:* thou shalt take five shekels apiece by the poll; after the shekel of the sanctuary shalt thou take them — the shekel is twenty gerahs.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1626.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1626/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).