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talents

Meaning of “talents”

Large units of weight used in reckoning money or precious metal.

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51 occurrences35 verses8 booksKJV PCE

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First occurrence: Exodus 38:24

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2 Chronicles 3:8
And he made the most holy house, the length whereof was according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty cubits: and he overlaid it with fine gold, amounting to six hundred talents.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · 2 Chronicles 3:8 · retained source text

And he made the most holy house, the length whereof was, according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof twentie cubits: and he ouerlaid it with fine gold amounting to sixe hundred talents.

2 Chronicles 8:18
And Huram sent him by the hands of his servants ships, and servants that had knowledge of the sea; and they went with the servants of Solomon to Ophir, and took thence four hundred and fifty talents of gold, and brought them to king Solomon.
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1611 witness · 2 Chronicles 8:18 · retained source text

And Huram sent him by the hands of his seruants, shippes, and seruants that had knowledge of the sea; and they went with the seruants of Solomon to Ophir, and tooke thence foure hundred and fiftie talents of golde, and brought them to king Solomon.

2 Chronicles 9:9
And she gave the king an hundred and twenty talents of gold, and of spices great abundance, and precious stones: neither was there any such spice as the queen of Sheba gave king Solomon.
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1611 witness · 2 Chronicles 9:9 · retained source text

And she gaue the king an hundred and twentie talents of gold, and of spices great abundance, & precious stones: neither was there any such spice as the Queene of Sheba gaue King Solomon.

2 Chronicles 9:13
¶ Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred and threescore and six talents of gold;
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1611 witness · 2 Chronicles 9:13 · retained source text

¶ Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one yeere, was sixe hundred and threescore and sixe talents of gold:

2 Chronicles 25:6
He hired also an hundred thousand mighty men of valour out of Israel for an hundred talents of silver.
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1611 witness · 2 Chronicles 25:6 · retained source text

Hee hired also an hundred thousand mightie men of valour, out of Israel, for an hundred talents of siluer.

2 Chronicles 25:9
And Amaziah said to the man of God, But what shall we do for the hundred talents which I have given to the army of Israel? And the man of God answered, The Lord is able to give thee much more than this.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · 2 Chronicles 25:9 · retained source text

And Amaziah said to the man of God, But what shall wee doe for the hundred talents which I haue giuen to the armie of Israel? And the man of God answered, The LORD is able to giue thee much more then this.

1611 marginal noteHeb. band.

2 Chronicles 27:5
¶ He fought also with the king of the Ammonites, and prevailed against them. And the children of Ammon gave him the same year an hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand measures of wheat, and ten thousand of barley. So much did the children of Ammon pay unto him, both the second year, and the third.
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1611 witness · 2 Chronicles 27:5 · retained source text

¶ He fought also with the king of the Ammonites, and preuailed against them. And the children of Ammon gaue him the same yeere an hundred talents of siluer, and ten thousand measures of wheate, and tenne thousand of barley. So much did the children of Ammon pay vnto him, both the second yeere, and the third.

1611 marginal noteHeb. much.

2 Chronicles 36:3
And the king of Egypt put him down at Jerusalem, and condemned the land in an hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.
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1611 witness · 2 Chronicles 36:3 · retained source text

And the king of Egypt put him downe at Ierusalem, and condemned the land in an hundred talents of siluer, and a talent of gold.

1611 marginal noteHebr. remooued him.

1611 marginal noteHebr. mulcted.

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