English Explanatory Dictionary

gerah

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An ancient Hebrew unit of weight and currency, one twentieth of a shekel.

Word forms

gerah gerahs

Etymology

From Hebrew גֵּרָה (gerá, “twentieth of a shekel”, literally “cud”).

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