15 occurrences

'Pieces Of Silver' in the Bible

And unto Sarah he said, Behold, I have given thy brother a thousand pieces of silver. Behold, it is for thee a covering of the eyes to all that are with thee. And in respect of all thou art righted.

Verse ConceptsCoveringSilverA Thousand ThingsMan VindicatesSpecific Sums Of MoneyPeople Giving Other Things

"Hear me, my lord. The land is worth 400 pieces of silver, but what is that between me and you? So bury your dead."

Verse ConceptsReal EstateUnimportant Things

So Abraham agreed to Ephron's price and weighed out for him the price that Ephron had quoted in the hearing of the sons of Heth -- 400 pieces of silver, according to the standard measurement at the time.

Verse ConceptsAgreement, Making AgreementsMerchantsTradeWeighingIn Men's PresenceAgreeing With One Anotherhumor

Then he bought a parcel of land for 100 pieces of silver from the descendants of Hamor, Shechem's father. He pitched his tent there,

Verse ConceptsProperty, LandSilverTentsReal EstateLarge Denominations

And there passed by Midianites, merchantmen; and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. And they brought Joseph into Egypt.

Verse ConceptsMerchantsSilverTradeCommercePrice Set On IndividualsTrade With Metals

To all of them he gave each man changes of raiment; but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver, and five changes of raiment.

Verse ConceptsDressPresentsFive ThingsPeople Giving ClothesSpecific Sums Of Money

And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, buried they in Shechem, in a parcel of ground which Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for an hundred pieces of silver: and it became the inheritance of the children of Joseph.

Verse ConceptsExhumationsBonesLarge Denominations

And they gave him threescore and ten pieces of silver out of the house of Baal-berith, wherewith Abimelech hired vain and light fellows, who followed him.

Verse ConceptsCoinageHiring

And the lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and said unto her, Entice him, and see wherein his great strength lieth, and by what means we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him: and we will give thee every one of us eleven hundred pieces of silver.

Verse ConceptsCoinageEnticementEnticingTying Up

And he said unto his mother, The eleven hundred pieces of silver that were taken from thee, about which thou didst utter a curse, and didst also speak it in mine ears, behold, the silver is with me; I took it. And his mother said, Blessed be my son of Jehovah.

Verse ConceptsDishonesty, Examples OfUnder The BanMay God Bless!Money Blessingsmums

And he restored the eleven hundred pieces of silver to his mother; and his mother said, I verily dedicate the silver unto Jehovah from my hand for my son, to make a graven image and a molten image: now therefore I will restore it unto thee.

And when he restored the money unto his mother, his mother took two hundred pieces of silver, and gave them to the founder, who made thereof a graven image and a molten image: and it was in the house of Micah.

Verse ConceptsCraftsmenMetalworkersSkill

And Micah said unto him, Dwell with me, and be unto me a father and a priest, and I will give thee ten pieces of silver by the year, and a suit of apparel, and thy victuals. So the Levite went in.

Verse ConceptsCoinageHiringSpiritual FathersPeople Giving ClothesUnnamed Priests

Then Joab said to the man who [was] telling him, "Look, [if] you saw, why did you not strike him down to the ground there? {I would have gladly given you} ten pieces of silver and a leather belt."

Verse ConceptsArmourBeltsArmor ProtectionPeople Giving Clothes

The man told Joab, “Even if I were to feel the weight of a thousand pieces of silver in my hands, I would not put out my hand against the king’s son; for we all heard the king command you, Abishai, and Ittai, saying, ‘Protect the young man Absalom, for my sake.’

Verse ConceptsFraudCoinageThe King's Orders

But the king said to Araunah, "No, I insist on buying it from you! I will not offer to the Lord my God burnt sacrifices that cost me nothing." So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty pieces of silver.

Verse ConceptsFalse WorshipBuying and sellingNegotiationProperty, LandPurchasingReal EstateFree Of Charge

A chariot from Egypt cost 600 pieces of silver, and a horse 150 pieces of silver, but then they were exported to all the Hittite kings and to the Aramean kings.

Verse ConceptsCommerce

And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass's head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a kab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver.

Verse ConceptsFamine, Examples OfCoinagedung and manureHeadsMonotonySuffering, Nature OfWeights And Measures, DryDefecationHelp In ShortageA Fourth PartExpensiveOther Volume Measuresboyfriendspoop

They brought up and brought out of Egypt a chariot for six hundred pieces of silver, and a horse for one hundred fifty: and so for all the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of Syria, did they bring them out by their means.

Verse ConceptsCoinage

Rebuke the company of spearmen, the multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the people, till every one submit himself with pieces of silver: scatter thou the people that delight in war.

Verse ConceptsBullsCalvesStretching OutWarfare, Nature OfScattering The PeoplesWild Beasts Subdued

Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-hamon; He let out the vineyard unto keepers; Every one for the fruit thereof was to bring a thousand pieces of silver.

Verse ConceptsLeasing

“My very own vineyard is at my disposal;The thousand [shekels of silver] are for you, O Solomon,And two hundred are for those who tend the fruit.”

And on that dayevery place where there were 1,000 vines,worth 1,000 pieces of silver,will become thorns and briers.

Verse ConceptsCoinageVinesWeedsA Thousand Things

So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and a homer of barley, and a half-homer of barley;

Verse ConceptsCoinageGrainMarketsWeights And Measures, DryBarteringPrice Set On Individuals

And I said unto them, If ye think good, give me my hire; and if not, forbear. So they weighed for my hire thirty pieces of silver.

Verse ConceptsJesus Christ, Prophecies OfProphecies Concerning ChristCapitalismField Of BloodMessianic PropheciesWeighing

And Jehovah said unto me, Cast it unto the potter, the goodly price that I was prized at by them. And I took the thirty pieces of silver, and cast them unto the potter, in the house of Jehovah.

Verse ConceptsPotterProphecies Concerning ChristExpensivePrice Set On Individuals

So after consultation they used the money to buy the Potter’s Field as a burial place for strangers.

Verse ConceptsForeignersBuying and sellingMoney, Uses OfPotterProphecies Concerning ChristCemeteryReal EstateMan's Counselcrusades

Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremy the prophet, saying, And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him that was valued, whom they of the children of Israel did value;

Verse ConceptsValuesScriptures FulfilledNamed Prophets Of The LordPrice Set On Individuals

and, being gathered together with the Elders and taking counsel, sufficient pieces of silver, gave they unto the soldiers, -

Verse ConceptsIndeterminate Sums Of MoneyMan's Counselelders

And, they, taking the pieces of silver, did as they were instructed. And this account was spread abroad among the Jews -- until this veryday.

Verse ConceptsJews, TheSpreading StoriesFalse Religion To This DayIndeterminate Sums Of MoneyObeying PeopleSaving Money

Either what woman having ten pieces of silver, if she lose one piece, doth not light a candle, and sweep the house, and seek diligently till she find it?

Verse ConceptsTen ThingsSeeking For Concrete ThingsFinding ThingsSweepinglosing a loved oneMissing SomeoneLosing A FriendLosing FriendsBeing Lostwomanwomanhood

And not a few of them that practised magical arts brought their books together and burned them in the sight of all; and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.

Verse ConceptsMagical Arts, Practice OfCoinageSorcery And MagicOccultismSorceryWorthValuemagicwitchesartistsOccultism Being Forbidden

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