noun · feminine
drachmas
Strong’sG1406
a drachma
stem drachm-3 times in the New Testament2 of 10 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.
δραχμή, -ῆς, ἡ
(< δράσσομαι), [in LXX: in Hex. for in בֶּקַע, שֶׁקֶלII Es for אֲדַרְכֹּן, דַּרְכְּמוֹן;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1406 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saiddrakh-may'
a drachma or (silver) coin (as handled)
Fromfrom G1405;
King Jamespiece (of silver).
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
(δράσσομαι, properly as much as one can hold in the hand,Refs 1st c.AD+
I a weight, drachm, [κρεῶν] probably in Refs 4th c.BC+
I.2 a silver coin, drachma, worth six obols, Refs 5th c.BC+, etc. [The penultimate is long in Refs 5th c.BC+: δαρχμή is found in Refs 5th c.AD+; compare δαρκνά.]
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 nominative | drachmas | drachmais |
| object accusative | drachman2×δραχμὴν | drachmain1×δραχμὰς |
| direct address vocative | drachmar | drachmair |
| of, belonging to genitive | drachmau | drachmaiu |
| to, for dative | drachma | drachmai |
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
drachma 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.
3 occurrences, every one of them listed
drachman“coin”objectaccusative singular2×
Luke 15:8“coin”… gunaikas drachmain echarōntas deka, ean apolateia drachman henan, ouchi haptatō luchnon kai saratō …Or what woman who has ten silver coins and loses one of them does not light a lamp, sweep her house, and search carefully …
Luke 15:9… legarōntas; Sunchairivar mi hoti heuriskama tan drachman han apolama.… for I have found my lost coin.’
drachmain“silver coins”objectaccusative plural1×
Luke 15:8Ē tinas gunaikas drachmain echarōntas deka, ean apolateia drachman henan, …Or what woman who has ten silver coins and loses one of them does …