אֲדַרְכֹּן
adarkon · daric
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H150 · appears 2 times in the Bible
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adarkon (אֲדַרְכֹּן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “daric”.
A gold coin of the Persian empire. It appears in books written after the exile (Chronicles, Ezra) to express an amount of gold.
How to say it
a·dar·kon
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
In today's measures
a gold coin of about 0.3 oz (8.4 g) approximate
A Persian coin, from the days of Ezra and Nehemiah; sometimes Greek drachmas may be meant.
Its senses in the Bible
- A Persian gold coin.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
Where it appears
- 1 Chronicles 29:7
they gave for the service of the house of Elohim five thousand talents of gold and ten thousand darics, ten thousand talents of silver, eighteen thousand talents of bronze, and a hundred thousand talents of iron.
- Ezra 8:27
and twenty bowls of gold worth a thousand darics, and two utensils of good shining bronze, desirable as gold.