'Weights' definitions:
Definition of 'Weights'
From: Easton
- Weights Reduced to English troy-weight, the Hebrew weights were:
- The gerah (Lev. 27:25; Num. 3:47), a Hebrew word, meaning a grain or kernel, and hence a small weight. It was the twentieth part of a shekel, and equal to 12 grains.
- Bekah (Ex. 38:26), meaning "a half" i.e., "half a shekel," equal to 5 pennyweight.
- Shekel, "a weight," only in the Old Testament, and frequently in its original form (Gen. 23:15, 16; Ex. 21:32; 30:13, 15; 38:24-29, etc.). It was equal to 10 pennyweight.
- Ma'neh, "a part" or "portion" (Ezek. 45:12), equal to 60 shekels, i.e., to 2 lbs. 6 oz.
- Talent of silver (2 Kings 5:22), equal to 3,000 shekels, i.e., 125 lbs.
- Talent of gold (Ex. 25:39), double the preceding, i.e., 250 lbs.
Words containing 'Weights'
- Weight,
- Weighted,
- Weighting,
- weight down,
- weighted down,
- Atomic weight,
- Casting weight,
- Combination by weight,
- Combining weight,
- Counter weight,
- Dead weight,
- Feather weight,
- Gross weight,
- Heat weight,
- Heavy weight,
- Light weight,
- Middle weight,
- Molecular weight,
- Paper weight,
- Thermic weight,
- To carry weight,
- Trone weight,
- Troy weight,
- Weight of observation,
- apothecaries' weight,
- avoirdupois weight,
- body weight,
- carry weight,
- equivalent weight,
- exercising weight,
- free weight,
- lose weight,
- reporting weight,
- sash weight,
- system of weights,
- weight gainer,
- weight gaining,
- weight unit,
- Imperial weights and measures,
- chemical atomic weights,
- metric weight unit,
- pull one's weight,
- system of weights and measures,
- throw-weight,
- weight-lift,
- gram-atomic weight,
- low-birth-weight baby,
- low-birth-weight infant