noun · masculine
statēros
Strong’sG4715
a Jewish shekel
stem statēr-once in the New Testament1 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.
στατήρ, -ῆρος, ὁ
[in Aq., Sm., for שֶׁקֶל;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4715 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidstat-air'
a stander (standard of value), i.e. (specially), a stater or certain coin
Fromfrom the base of G2746;
King Jamespiece of money.
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
(ἵστημι Refs 5th c.BC+; σ. Αἰγιναῖος as a weight, Refs 5th c.BC+
II standard coin, struck in various materials, whether gold, electrum, or silver:
II.1 gold, σ. χρυσοῖ, σ. χρυσοῦ, Refs 5th c.BC+; of various standards, e.g. σ. Δαρεικός (compare Δαρεικός) Refs 5th c.BC+; σ. Φιλίππειος, Ἀλεξάνδρειος, Refs 4th c.BC+; Πτολεμαϊκὸς σ. Refs 2nd c.BC+
II.2 electrum Refs 5th c.BC+; at Phocaea, σ. Φωκαϊται, Φωκαιῆς, Refs 5th c.BC+
II.3 silver, σ. Αἰγιναῖοι Refs 5th c.BC+; in Sicily called δεκάλιτρος σ., Refs 5th c.BC+; later applied to the Attic τετράδραχμον, Refs 9th c.AD+; also to the Ptolemaic τ., Refs 3rd c.BC+ “*Geometry texts” 23.55,56; also of the Jewish shekel, NT
III one who owes money, debtor, πολλοὶ σ., ἀποδοτῆρες οὐδ᾽ ἂν εἷς (οὐδαμεῖ conjecture Kaibel) Refs 5th c.BC+
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 | statēros | statērois |
| object accusative | statēron1×στατῆρα | statēroin |
| direct address vocative | statēror | statēroir |
| of, belonging to genitive | statērou | statēroiu |
| to, for dative | statēro | statēroi |
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
statēro 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.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
statēron“coin”objectaccusative singular1×
Matthew 17:27… kai anoigarantos tem stomem autou heuriskasi statēron; ekeinon labarantos dōasar autoi anti mu …… mouth, you will find a four-drachma coin. Take it and give it to …