Greek noun (feminine) · G1406
δραχμή
drachmedrakh-may'
drachma
3 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: drachmḗ
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G1406is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 27New Testament books
- 2spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G1406
a drachma or (silver) coin (as handled)
The King James renders it: piece (of silver).
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
drachme is rendered "drachma". It stands 3 times in the Greek text, across one book.
- Three of the uses stand in Luke, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Luke 15:8Or what woman who has ten silver coins and loses one of them does not light a lamp, sweep her house, and search carefully until she finds it?
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
Or what woman who has ten silver coins and loses one of them does not light a lamp, sweep her house, and search carefully until she finds it?
Luke 15:8δραχμὰς
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's three uses are in Luke.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- drachma2
- drachmas1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 3, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
2 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- δραχμὴν2
- δραχμὰς1
The grammar of each form
- noun · accusative (object) · feminine singular2N-ASF
- noun · accusative (object) · feminine plural1N-APF
Luke
three uses
Or what woman who has ten silver coins and loses one of them does not light a lamp, sweep her house, and search carefully until she finds it?
- δραχμὰςdrachmasnoun · accusative (object) · feminine pluraltagged: drachmas
- δραχμὴνdrachmennoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: drachma
And when she finds it, she calls together her friends and neighbors to say, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my lost coin.’
- δραχμὴνdrachmennoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: drachma
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.