didrachmos

Noun didrachmos (didrachma) in the Bible

(Translation from NRSV for the New Testament and Brenton for the Septuagint with a few modifications for a more literal meaning)

[* The Septuagint thus replaces the Hebrew šeqel]

Matthew

17: 24

When they reached Capernaum, the collectors of the didrachma (didrachmos) came to Peter and said, "Does your teacher not pay the didrachma (didrachmos)?"

Genesis (LXX)

20: 14	And Abimelech took a thousand didrachmas+ (didrachmos), and sheep, and calves, and servants, and maid-servants, and gave them to Abraam, and he returned him Sarrha his wife. [+This sum was added to the Hebrew text by the Septuagint, presumably in preparation for v. 16.]
20: 16	And to Sarrha he said, Behold, I have given thy brother a thousand didrachmas+ (didrachmos), those shall be to thee for the price of thy countenance, and to all the women with thee, and speak the truth in all things. [+ Word added by the Septuagint while the Hebrew implies šeqel].
23: 15	Nay, my lord, I have heard indeed, the land is worth four hundred silver didrachmas* (didrachmos), but what can this be between me and thee? nay, do thou bury thy dead.
23: 16	And Abraam hearkened to Ephron, and Abraam rendered to Ephron the money, which he mentioned in the ears of the sons of Chet, four hundred didrachmas* (didrachmos) of silver approved with merchants.

Exodus (LXX)

21: 32	And if the bull gore a man-servant or maid-servant, he shall pay to their master thirty silver didrachmas* (didrachmos), and the bull shall be stoned.
30: 13	And this is what they shall give, as many as pass the survey, half a didrachma* (didrachmos) which is according to the didrachma* (didrachmos) of the sanctuary: twenty oboli go to the didrachma* (didrachmos), but the half of the didrachma* (didrachmos) is the offering to the Lord.
30: 15	The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less than the half didrachma* (didrachmos) in giving the offering to the Lord, to make atonement for your souls.

Leviticus (LXX)

27: 3	the valuation of a male from twenty years old to sixty years old shall be - his valuation shall be fifty didrachmas* (didrachmos) of silver by the standard of the sanctuary.
27: 4	And the valuation of a female shall be thirty didrachmas* (didrachmos).
27: 5	And if it be from five years old to twenty, the valuation of a male shall be twenty didrachmas* (didrachmos), and of a female ten didrachmas* (didrachmos).
27: 6	And from a month old to five years old, the valuation of a male shall be five didrachmas* (didrachmos), and of a female, three didrachmas* (didrachmos) of silver.
27: 7	And if from sixty years old and upward, if it be a male, his valuation shall be fifteen didrachmas* (didrachmos) of silver, and if a female, ten didrachmas* (didrachmos).
27: 16	And if a man should hallow to the Lord a part of the field of his possession, then the valuation shall be according to its seed, fifty didrachmas* (didrachmos) of silver for a homer of barley.
27: 25	And every valuation shall be by holy weights: the didrachma* (didrachmos) shall be twenty oboli.

Numbers (LXX)

3: 47

thou shalt even take five shekels a head; thou shalt take them according to the holy didrachma* (didrachmos), twenty oboli to the shekel.

Deuteronomy (LXX)

22: 29

the man who lay with her shall give to the father of the damsel fifty silver didrachmas* (didrachmos), and she shall be his wife, because he has humbled her; he shall never be able to put her away.

Joshua (LXX)

7: 21

I saw in the spoil an embroidered mantle, and two hundred didrachmas* (didrachmos) of silver, and one golden wedge of fifty didrachmas* (didrachmos), and I desired them and took them; and, behold, they are hid in my tent, and the silver is hid under them.

Esdras B (LXX (contains Ezra and Nehemiah of our Bible)

Neh 5: 15 (15: 15)	But as for the former acts of extortion wherein those who were before me oppressed them, they even took of them their last money, forty didrachmas* (didrachmos) for bread and wine; and the very outcasts of them exercised authority over the people: but I did not so, because of the fear of God.
Neh 10: 33 (20: 33)	And we will impose ordinances upon ourselves, to levy on ourselves the third part of a didrachma* (didrachmos) yearly for the service of the house of our God;