Study it in the app“And some of the heads of the fathers’ houses gave to the treasury of the work twenty thousand drachmas of gold and two thousand two hundred minas of silver.”
And some of the headsוּמֵרָאשֵׁיof the fathers’ housesהָאָבוֹתgaveנָתְנוּto the treasuryלְאוֹצַרof the workהַמְּלָאכָהtwenty thousandשְׁתֵּי רִבּוֹתdrachmasדַּרְכְּמוֹנִיםof goldזָהָבandוְtwo thousand two hundredאַלְפַּיִם וּמָאתָיִםminasמָנִיםof silver.כֶסֶף
chief
Literally "the head": the one who leads, or the best of something.
Where else “rashe” appearshead of family
The head of a family or clan.
Where else “avot” appearsgive
To hand something over to someone: a gift, a payment, a charge or a land.
Where else “natnu” appearsstorehouse
The place where valuables are kept.
Where else “otsar” appearswork
The work one does or is assigned: building, serving, tending.
Where else “melacha” appearstwo
A pair, a quantity of two.
Where else “shete” appearsten thousand, myriad
Ten thousand; also a very large, countless number ("myriad").
Where else “ribot” appearsdrachma
Drachma: a gold coin. It may be another name of the Persian daric.
Where else “darkmonim” appearsgold
Gold.
Where else “zahav” appearsthousand
One thousand: a large, round number.
Where else “alpayim” appearshundred
The amount of one hundred; with other numbers it forms two hundred, three hundred and the rest.
Where else “matayim” appearsmina
Mina: a measure of weight for metals, about 570 grams (fifty or sixty shekels depending on the period).
Where else “manim” appearssilver
A white, valuable metal, the one most used after gold.
Where else “chesef” appears70And some of the heads of the fathers’ houses gave for the work. The governor gave to the treasury a thousand drachmas of gold, fifty bowls, five hundred thirty tunics of priests.
71 · This verse (above)
72And what the rest of the people gave was twenty thousand drachmas of gold, and two thousand minas of silver, and sixty-seven tunics of priests.
