Midvash

אֲדַרְכֹּןʼădarkôn

a daric or Persian coin

Pronunciation: ad-ar-kone' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H150

Meanings

unit (apparently of weight, certainly) of value, rare & late, perhaps drachma, others daric (Ezra 2:69; Nehemiah 7:70; Nehemiah 7:69; Nehemiah 7:71; 1 Chronicles 29:7)

Where it appears

Appears 2 times in the Bible.

  • 1 Chronicles 29:7 For the construction of the Temple of God, they gave about 188 tons of gold, 10,000 gold coins, 375 tons of silver, 675 tons of bronze, and 3,750 tons of iron.
  • Ezra 8:27 20 gold bowls, equal in value to 1,000 gold coins, 2 fine articles of polished bronze, as precious as gold.

Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).