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talent

Meaning of “talent”

A large unit of weight, used for money or precious metal.

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KJV context and cross-referencesWebster 1828
14 occurrences14 verses9 booksKJV PCE

First occurrence: Exodus 25:39

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Exodus 25:39
Of a talent of pure gold shall he make it, with all these vessels.
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Of a talent of pure gold shall hee make it, with all these vessels.

Exodus 38:27
And of the hundred talents of silver were cast the sockets of the sanctuary, and the sockets of the vail; an hundred sockets of the hundred talents, a talent for a socket.
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And of the hundred talents of siluer, were cast the sockets of the Sanctuary, and the sockets of the vaile: an hundred sockets of the hundred talents, a talent for a socket.

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The Attic talent the weight, contained 60 Attic minae, or 6000 Attic drachmae, equal to 56 pounds, eleven ounces, English troy weight. […] But the Hebrew talent of silver, called cicar, was equivalent to three thousand shekels, or one hundred and thirteen pounds, ten ounces and a fraction, troy weight.

volume 2, leaf 734, column 1 (entry starts at OCR line 76)