argyrion · silver, money

What it means

argyrion (ἀργύριον) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “silver, money”.

Silver; money, silver coins.

How to say it

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.

Its senses in the Bible

1. The precious white metal, weighed out to pay.
2. Coins for paying or buying; what is given as payment.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• silver ×11
• money ×9

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Matthew×9
• Mark×1
• Luke×4
• Acts×5
• 1 Peter×1

• Matthew 25:18

  But the one who had received the one went away, dug in the ground, and hid his master’s money.

• Matthew 25:27

  Then you ought to have put my money with the bankers, and when I came I would have received back what is mine with interest.

• Matthew 26:15

  and said, “What are you willing to give me and I will hand him over to you?” And they weighed out for him thirty pieces of silver.

• Matthew 27:3

  Then Judas, who had handed him over, seeing that he had been condemned, felt regret and returned the thirty pieces of silver to the high priests and elders,

• Matthew 27:5

  And throwing the pieces of silver into the sanctuary, he left, and he went away and hanged himself.

• Matthew 27:6

  But the high priests, taking the pieces of silver, said, “It is not lawful to put them into the treasury, since it is the price of blood.”

• Matthew 27:9

  Then was fulfilled what was spoken through Jeremiah the prophet, when he says, “And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of the one whose price had been set, whom they priced from the sons of Israel,

• Matthew 28:12

  And when they had gathered with the elders and taken counsel, they gave a large sum of money to the soldiers,

• Matthew 28:15

  And they took the money and did as they had been instructed. And this story has been spread among the Jews to this day.

• Mark 14:11

  And when they heard it, they were glad and promised to give him money. And he was seeking how he might conveniently hand him over.

• Luke 9:3

  And he said to them, “Take nothing for the journey, neither staff nor bag nor bread nor money, nor have two tunics apiece.

• Luke 19:15

  And it happened, when he returned, having received the kingdom, that he ordered these slaves, to whom he had given the money, to be called to him, so that he might know what they had gained by doing business.

• Luke 19:23

  Then why did you not put my money in the bank? And I, at my coming, would have collected it with interest.’

• Luke 22:5

  And they were glad and agreed to give him money.

• Acts 3:6

  But Peter said, “Silver and gold I do not have, but what I have, this I give you: in the name of Jesus the Messiah the Nazarene, walk!”

• Acts 7:16

  and they were carried over to Shechem and laid in the tomb that Abraham had bought for a sum of silver from the sons of Hamor in Shechem.

• Acts 8:20

  But Peter said to him, “May your silver go to destruction with you, because you thought you could acquire the gift of God with money!

• Acts 19:19

  And a number of those who had practiced magic brought together their books and were burning them before everyone; and they counted up their value and found it to be fifty thousand pieces of silver.

• Acts 20:33

  I coveted no one’s silver or gold or clothing.

• 1 Peter 1:18

  knowing that you were redeemed not with perishable things, silver or gold, from your futile conduct inherited from your fathers,