Thematic Bible: Fractions of, used in currency
Thematic Bible
Shekel » Fractions of, used in currency
And the young man addeth to answer Saul, and saith, 'Lo, there is found with me a fourth of a shekel of silver: and I have given to the man of God, and he hath declared to us our way.'
This they do give, every one passing over unto those numbered, half a shekel, by the shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel is twenty gerahs); half a shekel is the heave-offering to Jehovah;
And we have appointed for ourselves commands, to put on ourselves the third of a shekel in a year, for the service of the house of our God,