Noun drachmē (drachma) in the Bible

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


Luke

15: 8"Or what woman having ten drachmas (drachmē), if she loses one drachma (drachmē), does not light a lamp, sweep the house, and search carefully until she finds it?
15: 9When she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors, saying, 'Rejoice with me, for I have found the drachma (drachmē) that I had lost.'

Genesis

24: 22And it came to pass when all the camels ceased drinking, that the man took golden earrings, each of a drachma+ (drachmē) weight, and he put two bracelets on her hands, their weight was ten pieces of gold. [+ The Massoretic Hebrew does not specify the unit of measurement that the Septuagint interprets as a drachma.]

Exodus

38: 26 (39: 3)one drachma+ (drachmē) apiece, even the half shekel, according to the holy shekel. Every one that passed the survey from twenty years old and upwards to the number of six hundred thousand, and three thousand five hundred and fifty.[+ The Septuagint thus translates the Hebrew beqaʿ (half), to interpret the half-sicle by giving it, it believes, the equivalent of]

Tobit (deuterocanonical book of which only the Greek text remains)

5: 15But tell me, what wages shall I give thee? wilt thou a drachma (drachmē) a day, and things necessary, as to mine own son?

2 Maccabees

4: 19this ungracious Jason sent special messengers from Jerusalem, who were Antiochians, to carry three hundred drachmas (drachmē) of silver to the sacrifice of Hercules, which even the bearers thereof thought fit not to bestow upon the sacrifice, because it was not convenient, but to be reserved for other charges.
10: 20Now they that were with Simon, being led with covetousness, were persuaded for money through certain of those that were in the castle, and took seventy thousand drachmas (drachmē), and let some of them escape.
12: 43And when he had made a gathering throughout the company to the sum of two thousand drachmas (drachmē) of silver, he sent it to Jerusalem to offer a sin offering, doing therein very well and honestly, in that he was mindful of the resurrection:

3 Maccabees (deuterocanonical book before the beginning of our modern era)

3: 28Whoever shall inform against the Jews, besides receiving the property of the person charged, shall be presented with two thousand drachmas (drachmē) from the royal treasury, shall be made free, and shall be crowned.