noun · neuter
didrachmem
Strong’sG1323
a double-drachma, two drachmae
stem didrachm-2 times in the New Testament0 of 6 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
† δίδραχμος, -ον
(< δίς, δραχμή),
[in LXX chiefly for שֶׁקֶל (Ge 23:15, a1.), also for כֶּסֶף: Ge 20:16, De 22:29;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1323 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
priced at two drachms, Refs 4th c.BC+; δ. ὁπλῖται soldiers with pay of two drachms a day, Refs 5th c.BC+
II weighing two drachms, ὁλκή Refs 4th c.BC+
III δ. τόκος interest at two drachms per mina per month (24%), Refs 1st c.BC+
IV δίδραχμον, τό, coin of two drachms, Refs 4th c.BC+: especially half-shekel, paid to the temple-treasury at Jerusalem, LXX+NT
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject or object direct | didrachmem | didrachmeim |
| of, belonging to genitive | didrachmeu | didrachmeiu |
| to, for dative | didrachme | didrachmei |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
didrachme is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
didrachmeim2×
Matthew 17:24“temple tax”… autoiu eis Kafarnaoum proserchala tois teim didrachmeim labarōntois to Petro kai legala; Tos …After they had arrived in Capernaum, the collectors of the two-drachma tax came to Peter and asked, “Does your Teacher pay the two drachmas?”
Matthew 17:24“temple tax”… Tos didaskalos vu ouk telatō teim didrachmeim?… in Capernaum, the collectors of the two-drachma tax came to Peter and asked, “Does your Teacher pay the two drachmas?”