Midvash

דַּרְכְּמוֹןdarkᵉmôwn

a 'drachma', or coin

Pronunciation: dar-kem-one' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H1871

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 4 times in the Bible.

  • Ezra 2:69 and each leader gave as much as he could. The total of their gifts came to 61,000 gold coins, 6,250 pounds of silver, and 100 robes for the priests.
  • Nehemiah 7:70 Some of the family leaders gave gifts for the work. The governor gave to the treasury 1,000 gold coins, 50 gold basins, and 530 robes for the priests.
  • Nehemiah 7:71 The other leaders gave to the treasury a total of 20,000 gold coins and some 2,750 pounds of silver for the work.
  • Nehemiah 7:72 The rest of the people gave 20,000 gold coins, about 2,500 pounds of silver, and 67 robes for the priests.

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).