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Lexicon :: Strong's G5007 - talanton

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τάλαντον
Transliteration
talanton (Key)
Pronunciation
tal'-an-ton
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Part of Speech
neuter noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From a presumed derivative of the original form of tlao (to bear, equivalent to φέρω (G5342))
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Strong’s Definitions

τάλαντον tálanton, tal'-an-ton; neuter of a presumed derivative of the original form of τλάω tláō (to bear; equivalent to G5342); a balance (as supporting weights), i.e. (by implication) a certain weight (and thence a coin or rather sum of money) or "talent":—talent.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 15x

The KJV translates Strong's G5007 in the following manner: talent (15x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 15x
The KJV translates Strong's G5007 in the following manner: talent (15x).

  1. the scale of a balance, a balance, a pair of scales

  2. that which is weighed, a talent

    1. a weight varying in different places and times

    2. a sum of money weighing a talent and varying in different states and according to the changes in the laws regulating currency

      1. the Attic talent was equal to 60 Attic minae or 6000 drachmae

      2. a talent of silver in Israel weighed about 100 pounds (45 kg)

      3. a talent of gold in Israel weighed about 200 pounds (91 kg)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
τάλαντον tálanton, tal'-an-ton; neuter of a presumed derivative of the original form of τλάω tláō (to bear; equivalent to G5342); a balance (as supporting weights), i.e. (by implication) a certain weight (and thence a coin or rather sum of money) or "talent":—talent.
STRONGS G5007:
τάλαντον, ταλάντου, τό (ΤΑΛΑΩ, ΤΛΑΩ (to bear));
1. the scale of a balance, a balance, a pair of scales (Homer).
2. that which is weighed, a talent, i. e.
a. a weight, varying in different places and times.
b. a sum of money weighing a talent and varying in different states and according to the changes in the laws regulating the currency; the Attic talent was equal to 60 Attic minae or 6,000 drachmae, and worth about 200 pounds sterling or 1,000 dollars (cf. Liddell and Scott, under the word, II. 2 b.). But in the N. T. probably the Syrian talent is referred to, which was equal to about 237 dollars (but see BB. DD., under the word ): Matthew 18:24; Matthew 25:15f (Matthew 25:18 Lachmann), Matthew 25:20,22,24f,28. (The Sept. for כִּכָּר, Luth. Centner, the heaviest Hebrew weight; on which see Kneucker in Schenkel v., p. 460f; (BB. DD., under the word ).)
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Matthew
18:24; 25:15; 25:18; 25:20; 25:22; 25:24; 25:28

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G5007 matches the Greek τάλαντον (talanton),
which occurs 47 times in 36 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 25:39

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:39 - “It shall be made from a [fn]talent of pure gold, with all these utensils.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 38:24

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:24 -

All the gold that was used for the work, in all the work of the sanctuary, [fn]which was the gold of the wave offering, was twenty-nine [fn]talents and 730 [fn]shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 38:25

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:25 - And the silver of those of the congregation who were [fn]counted was a hundred talents and 1,775 shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary;

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 38:27

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:27 - The hundred talents of silver were used for casting the bases of the sanctuary and the bases of the veil; a hundred bases for the hundred talents, a talent for a base.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 38:29

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:29 - And the bronze of the wave offering was seventy talents and 2,400 shekels.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 12:30

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:30 - Then he took the crown of [fn]their king from his head; and its weight was a [fn]talent of gold, and it had a precious stone; and it was placed on David’s head. And he brought out the plunder of the city in great amounts.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 9:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:14 - And Hiram sent to the king [fn]120 talents of gold.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 9:28

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:28 - And they went to Ophir and received [fn]420 talents of gold from there, and brought it to King Solomon.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 10:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:10 - Then she gave the king [fn]120 talents of gold, and a very large amount of balsam oil and precious stones. Never again did such a large quantity of balsam oil come in as that which the queen of Sheba gave King Solomon.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 10:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:14 -

Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was [fn]666 talents of gold,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 16:24

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:24 - And he purchased the hill [fn]Samaria from Shemer for [fn]two talents of silver; and he built on the hill, and named the city which he built [fn]Samaria, after the name of Shemer, the owner of the hill.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 20:39

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:39 - And as the king passed by, he cried out to the king and said, “Your servant went out into the midst of the battle; and behold, a man turned aside and brought a man to me and said, ‘Guard this man; if for any reason he goes missing, then your life shall be forfeited in place of his life, or else you shall pay a [fn]talent of silver.’

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 5:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:5 - Then the king of Aram said, “Go [fn]now, and I will send a letter to the king of Israel.” So he departed and took with him ten [fn]talents of silver, six thousand [fn]shekels of gold, and ten changes of clothes.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 5:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:22 - And he said, “Everything is well. My master has sent me, saying, ‘Behold, just now two young men of the sons of the prophets have come to me from the hill country of Ephraim. Please give them a talent of silver and two changes of clothes.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 15:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 15:19 -

Pul, the king of Assyria, came against the land, and Menahem gave Pul a [fn]thousand talents of silver so that his hand might be with him to strengthen the [fn]kingdom [fn]under his rule.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 18:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:14 - Then Hezekiah king of Judah sent messengers to the king of Assyria at Lachish, saying, “I have done wrong. [fn]Withdraw from me; whatever you impose on me I will endure.” So the king of Assyria imposed on Hezekiah king of Judah the payment of three hundred [fn]talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:33

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:33 - And Pharaoh Neco imprisoned him at Riblah in the land of Hamath, so that he would not reign in Jerusalem; and he imposed on the land a fine of [fn]a hundred talents of silver and [fn]a talent of gold.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 19:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:6 -

When the sons of Ammon saw that they had made themselves repulsive to David, Hanun and the sons of Ammon sent [fn]a thousand talents of silver to hire for themselves chariots and horsemen from Mesopotamia, Aram-maacah, and Zobah.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 20:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 20:2 - David took the crown of [fn]their king from his head, and he found it to weigh a [fn]talent of gold, and there was a precious stone in it; and it was placed on David’s head. And he brought out the spoils of the city, a very great amount.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 22:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 22:14 - “Now behold, [fn]with great pains I have prepared for the house of the LORD a hundred thousand [fn]talents of gold and a million talents of silver, and bronze and iron beyond measure, for [fn]they are in great quantity; I have also prepared timber and stone, and you may add to that.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 29:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 29:4 - namely, three thousand [fn]talents of gold, from the gold of Ophir, and seven thousand talents of refined silver, to overlay the walls of the [fn]buildings;

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 29:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 29:7 - and for the service of the house of God they gave five thousand talents and ten thousand [fn]darics of gold, ten thousand talents of silver, eighteen thousand talents of brass, and a hundred thousand talents of iron.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 3:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 3:8 -

Then he made the [fn]room of the Most Holy Place: its length across the width of the house was [fn]twenty cubits, and its width was twenty cubits; and he overlaid it with fine gold, amounting to [fn]six hundred talents.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 8:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:18 - And by his servants Huram sent him ships and servants who knew the sea; and they went with Solomon’s servants to Ophir and took from there [fn]450 talents of gold, and brought it to King Solomon.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 9:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:9 - Then she gave the king [fn]120 talents of gold and a very great amount of balsam oil and precious stones; there had never been balsam oil like that which the queen of Sheba gave King Solomon.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 9:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:13 -

Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was [fn]666 talents of gold,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 25:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:6 - He also hired a hundred thousand valiant warriors from Israel for [fn]a hundred talents of silver.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 25:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:9 - Amaziah said to the man of God, “But what are we to do about the [fn]hundred talents which I have given to the troops of Israel?” And the man of God answered, “The LORD has much more to give you than this.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 27:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 27:5 - He fought with the king of the Ammonites and prevailed over them so that during that year the Ammonites gave him [fn]a hundred talents of silver, [fn]ten thousand kors of wheat, and ten thousand of barley. The Ammonites also paid him this amount in the second year and in the third.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 36:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:3 - Then the king of Egypt deposed him in Jerusalem, and imposed a fine on the land of [fn]a hundred talents of silver and [fn]one talent of gold.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 7:22

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:22 - up to [fn]a hundred talents of silver, [fn]a hundred kors of wheat, [fn]a hundred baths of wine, [fn]a hundred baths of anointing oil, and salt [fn]as needed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 8:26

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:26 - So I weighed into their hands [fn]650 talents of silver, and silver utensils worth [fn]a hundred talents, and a hundred gold talents,

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 1:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:7 - Drinks were served in golden vessels of various kinds, and the royal wine was plentiful in proportion to the king’s [fn]bounty.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 3:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:9 - “If it is pleasing to the king, let it be [fn]decreed that they be eliminated, and I will pay [fn]ten thousand talents of silver into the hands of those who carry out the king’s business, to put into the king’s treasuries.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 4:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:7 - Mordecai told him everything that had happened to him, and the exact amount of money that Haman had promised to pay to the king’s treasuries for the elimination of the Jews.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 5:7

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 5:7 - And behold, a lead cover was lifted up.” He continued, “And this is a woman sitting inside the ephah.”
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