Category:Weights

---excerpt from the Illustrated Bible Dictionary

Weights - Reduced to English troy-weight, the Hebrew weights were:, (1.) The gerah (Leviticus 27:25; Numbers 3:47), a Hebrew word, meaning a grain or kernel, and hence a small weight. It was the twentieth part of a shekel, and equal to 12 grains. (2.) Bekah (Exodus 38:26), meaning "a half" i.e., "half a shekel," equal to 5 pennyweight. (3.) Shekel, "a weight," only in the Old Testament, and frequently in its original form (Genesis 23:15, Genesis 23:16; Exodus 21:32; Exodus 30:13, Exodus 30:15; Exodus 38:24, etc.). It was equal to 10 pennyweight. (4.) Ma'neh, "a part" or "portion" (Ezekiel 45:12), equal to 60 shekels, i.e., to 2 lb. 6 oz. (5.) Talent of silver (2 Kings 5:22), equal to 3,000 shekels, i.e., 125 lb. (6.) Talent of gold (Exodus 25:39), double the preceding, i.e., 250 lb.