Category:Farthing

Far"thing, n. Etym: [OE. furthing, AS. feór, fr. feór fourth, feór, feówer, four. See Four.]

1. The fourth of a penny; a small copper coin. of Great Britain, being a cent in United States currency.

2. A very small quantity or value. [Obs.] In her cup was no farthing seen of grease. Chaucer.

3. A division of land. [Obs.] Thirty acres make a farthing land; nine farthings a Cornish acre; and four Cornish acres a knight's fee. R. Carew.

- ---excerpt from the Illustrated Bible Dictionary

Farthing - (1.) Matthew 10:29; Luke 12:6. Greek assarion, i.e., a small as, which was a Roman coin equal to a tenth of a denarius or drachma , nearly equal to a half-penny of our money. (2.) Matthew 5:26; Mark 12:42 (Gr. kodrantes ), the quadrant, the fourth of an as, equal to two lepta, mites. The lepton (mite) was the very smallest copper coin.