'Minas' in the Bible
Also [he made] three hundred small shields of hammered gold; three minas of gold went up over each of the small shields; and the king put them [into] the House of the Forest of Lebanon.
According to their ability they gave to the treasury room for the work sixty-one thousand darics of gold, five thousand minas of silver, and one hundred priestly tunics.
Now some of the heads of the {families} gave to the storehouse of the work twenty thousand gold darics and two thousand two hundred silver minas.
And what the rest of the people gave was twenty thousand darics of gold, and two thousand silver minas, and sixty-seven priestly tunics.
And summoning ten of his own slaves, he gave them ten minas and said to them, 'Do business {until I come back}.'
So the first arrived, saying, 'Sir, your mina has made ten minas more!'
And the second came, saying, 'Sir, your mina has made five minas.'
And to the bystanders he said, 'Take away from him the mina and give [it] to the one who has the ten minas!'