Reference: Pound
American
A weight and a sum of money, put, in the Old Testament, 1Ki 10:17; Ezr 2:69; Ne 7:71, for the Hebrew MANEH, which see; and in the New Testament, for the Attic MINA, which was equivalent to one hundred drachmae, or about fourteen dollars.
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He made three hundred smaller body-covers of hammered gold. Three pounds of gold was in every cover. The king put them in the house of the Woods of Lebanon.
Every one, as he was able, gave for the work sixty-one thousand drachmas of gold, five thousand pounds of silver and a hundred priests' robes.
Some of the heads of families gave to the store for the work twenty thousand darics of gold, and two thousand, two hundred pounds of silver.
Easton
(1.) A weight. Heb maneh, equal to 100 shekels (1Ki 10:17; Ezr 2:69; Ne 7:71-72). Gr. litra, equal to about 12 oz. avoirdupois (Joh 12:3; 19:39).
(2.) A sum of money; the Gr. mna or mina (Lu 19:13,16,18,20,24-25). It was equal to 100 drachmas, and was of the value of about $3, 6s. 8d. of our money. (See Money.)
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He made three hundred smaller body-covers of hammered gold. Three pounds of gold was in every cover. The king put them in the house of the Woods of Lebanon.
Every one, as he was able, gave for the work sixty-one thousand drachmas of gold, five thousand pounds of silver and a hundred priests' robes.
Some of the heads of families gave to the store for the work twenty thousand darics of gold, and two thousand, two hundred pounds of silver. That which the rest of the people gave was twenty thousand darics of gold, and two thousand pounds of silver, and sixty-seven priests' robes.
He called ten of his servants and gave them ten pounds, and said do business with this until I return.
The first reported: Your pound has made ten pounds more.
The second said: Your pound, Lord, has made five pounds.
Another reported: Lord, here is your pound. I kept it stored in a napkin.
The nobleman said: Take away the pound he was given and give it to him that has the ten pounds. They said: Lord he has ten pounds!
Mary took a pound of very precious ointment of pure nard and anointed the feet of Jesus. She wiped his feet with her hair. The house was filled with the odor of the ointment.
Nicodemus also came with a mixture of myrrh and about a hundred pounds of aloes. Nicodemus is the one who came to Jesus at night.
Fausets
(See WEIGHTS.) A Greek pound; a money of account; 60 in the talent; the weight depended on that of the talent. The Attic talent then was usual in Palestine.
Hastings
Morish
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Smith
Pound.
1. A weight. [See WEIGHTS AND MEASURES]
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2. A sum of money put in the Old Testament,
for the Hebrew maneh, worth in silver about $25. In the parable of the ten pounds,
Lu 19:12-27
the reference appears to be to a Greek pound, a weight used as a money of account, of which sixty went to the talent. It was worth $15 to $17.
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He made three hundred smaller body-covers of hammered gold. Three pounds of gold was in every cover. The king put them in the house of the Woods of Lebanon.
Every one, as he was able, gave for the work sixty-one thousand drachmas of gold, five thousand pounds of silver and a hundred priests' robes.
Some of the heads of families gave to the store for the work twenty thousand darics of gold, and two thousand, two hundred pounds of silver.
He said: A nobleman traveled to a country far away to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return. He called ten of his servants and gave them ten pounds, and said do business with this until I return. read more. His citizens hated him. They sent a spokesman to him saying we do not want this man to rule us. He received the kingdom and went back to check on his servants. He wanted to know what they had gained by trading with the money he gave them. The first reported: Your pound has made ten pounds more. He said: Well done, you good servant. You were faithful in very little. Now you shall have authority over ten cities. The second said: Your pound, Lord, has made five pounds. He replied: You should be over five cities. Another reported: Lord, here is your pound. I kept it stored in a napkin. I feared you because you are an austere man. You take up what you do not lay down and you reap that which you did not sow. He said to him: Out of your own mouth I will judge you, you wicked servant. You knew that I am an austere man, taking up that which I did not lay down, and reaping that which I did not sow. Why did you not put my money in the bank? That way I could collect interest when I returned. The nobleman said: Take away the pound he was given and give it to him that has the ten pounds. They said: Lord he has ten pounds! I say to you, that every one who has more shall be given. The man who does not have what little he has shall be taken away from him. Bring my enemies that do not want me to rule over them and kill them in front of me.