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|strgr=neuter of a presumed derivative of the [[original]] [[form]] of tlao (to [[bear]]; equivalent to [[φέρω]]); a [[balance]] (as supporting weights), i.e. (by [[implication]]) a [[certain]] [[weight]] (and [[thence]] a [[coin]] or [[rather]] [[sum]] of [[money]]) or "[[talent]]": [[talent]]. | |strgr=neuter of a presumed derivative of the [[original]] [[form]] of tlao (to [[bear]]; equivalent to [[φέρω]]); a [[balance]] (as supporting weights), i.e. (by [[implication]]) a [[certain]] [[weight]] (and [[thence]] a [[coin]] or [[rather]] [[sum]] of [[money]]) or "[[talent]]": [[talent]]. | ||
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|txtha=ταλάντου, τό (ΤΑΛΑΩ, ΤΛΑΩ (to [[bear]]));<br /><b class="num">1.</b> the [[scale]] of a [[balance]], a [[balance]], a [[pair]] of scales ([[Homer]]).<br /><b class="num">2.</b> [[that]] [[which]] is weighed, a [[talent]], i. e.<br /><b class="num">a.</b> a [[weight]], varying in [[different]] places and times.<br /><b class="num">b.</b> a [[sum]] of [[money]] [[weighing]] a [[talent]] and varying in [[different]] states and according to the changes in the laws regulating the [[currency]]; the Attic [[talent]] [[was]] [[equal]] to 60 Attic minae or 6,000 drachmae, and [[worth]] [[about]] 200 pounds [[sterling]] or 1,000 dollars (cf. Liddell and Scott, [[under]] the [[word]], II:2b.). But in the N. T. [[probably]] the Syrian [[talent]] is referred to, [[which]] [[was]] [[equal]] to [[about]] 237 dollars ([[but]] [[see]] BB. DD., [[under]] the [[word]] <TOPIC:Money>): Sept. for כִּכָּר, Luth. Centner, the heaviest [[Hebrew]] [[weight]]; on [[which]] [[see]] Kneucker in Schenkel v., p. 460f; (BB. DD., [[under]] the [[word]] <TOPIC:Weights>).) | |||
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