Hebrew noun (feminine) · H1626
גֵּרָה
gerahgay-raw'
gerah
5 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: gêrâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1626is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H1626
a gerah or small weight (and coin)
The King James renders it: gerah.
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
gerah is rendered "gerah". It stands 5 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- Two of the uses stand in Numbers, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 30:13Everyone who crosses over to those counted must pay a half shekel, according to the sanctuary shekel, which weighs twenty gerahs. This half shekel is an offering to the LORD.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
Everyone who crosses over to those counted must pay a half shekel, according to the sanctuary shekel, which weighs twenty gerahs. This half shekel is an offering to the LORD.
Exodus 30:13גֵּרָה֙
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's five uses are in Numbers.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- gerah5
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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| גֵּר | ger | sojourner | Uses92 |
| גֵּרְשֻׁנִּי | Gereshunni | Gershonite | Uses13 |
| גֵּרָה | gerah | cud | Uses11 |
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 5, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 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
- גֵּרָ֖ה3
- גֵּרָה֙1
- גֵּרָ֑ה1
The grammar of each form
- noun · feminine singular5HNcfsa
Exodus
one use
Everyone who crosses over to those counted must pay a half shekel, according to the sanctuary shekel, which weighs twenty gerahs. This half shekel is an offering to the LORD.
- גֵּרָה֙gerahnoun · feminine singulartagged: gerah
Leviticus
one use
Every valuation will be according to the sanctuary shekel, twenty gerahs to the shekel.
- גֵּרָ֖הgerahnoun · feminine singulartagged: gerah
Numbers
two uses
you are to collect five shekels for each one, according to the sanctuary shekel of twenty gerahs.
- גֵּרָ֖הgerahnoun · feminine singulartagged: gerah
You are to pay the redemption price for a month-old male according to your valuation: five shekels of silver, according to the sanctuary shekel, which is twenty gerahs.
- גֵּרָ֖הgerahnoun · feminine singulartagged: gerah
Ezekiel
one use
The shekel will consist of twenty gerahs. Twenty shekels plus twenty-five shekels plus fifteen shekels will equal one mina.
- גֵּרָ֑הgerahnoun · feminine singulartagged: gerah
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.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.