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Lexicon :: Strong's G694 - argyrion

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ἀργύριον
Transliteration
argyrion (Key)
Pronunciation
ar-goo'-ree-on
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Part of Speech
neuter noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Neuter of a presumed derivative of ἄργυρος (G696)
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Strong’s Definitions

ἀργύριον argýrion, ar-goo'-ree-on; neuter of a presumed derivative of G696; silvery, i.e. (by implication) cash; specially, a silverling (i.e. drachma or shekel):—money, (piece of) silver (piece).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 20x

The KJV translates Strong's G694 in the following manner: money (11x), piece of silver (5x), silver (3x), silver piece (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 20x
The KJV translates Strong's G694 in the following manner: money (11x), piece of silver (5x), silver (3x), silver piece (1x).

  1. silver

  2. money

  3. a silver coin, silver piece, a shekel

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ἀργύριον argýrion, ar-goo'-ree-on; neuter of a presumed derivative of G696; silvery, i.e. (by implication) cash; specially, a silverling (i.e. drachma or shekel):—money, (piece of) silver (piece).
STRONGS G694:
ἀργύριον, -ου, τό, (from ἄργυρος, which see), [from Herodotus down];
1. silver: Acts 3:6; Acts 7:16; Acts 20:33; 1 Peter 1:18; [1 Corinthians 3:12 T Tr WH].
2. money: simply, Matthew 25:18, 27; Mark 14:11; Luke 9:3; Luke 19:15, 23; Luke 22:5; Acts 8:20; plural, [Matthew 28:12], Matthew 28:15.
3. Specifically, a silver coin, silver-piece (Luther, Silberling), שֶׁקֶל σίκλος, shekel [see B. D. under the word], i. e. a coin in circulation among the Jews after the exile, from the time of Simon (circa B. C. 141) down (cf. 1 Macc. 15:6f [yet see B. D. under the word Money, and references in Schürer, N. T. Zeitgesch. § 7]); according to Josephus (Antiquities 3, 8, 2) equal to the Attic tetradrachm or the Alexandrian didrachm (cf. στατήρ [B. D. under the word Piece of Silver]): Matthew 26:15; Matthew 27:3, 5f, 9. In Acts 19:19, ἀργυρίον μυριάδες πέντε fifty thousand pieces of silver (German 50,000 in Silber equivalent to Silbergeld), doubtless drachmas [cf. δηνάριον] are meant; cf. Meyer [and others] at the passage.
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Matthew
25:18; 25:27; 26:15; 27:3; 27:5; 27:9; 28:12; 28:15
Mark
14:11
Luke
9:3; 19:15; 19:23; 22:5
Acts
3:6; 7:16; 8:20; 19:19; 20:33
1 Corinthians
3:12
1 Peter
1:18

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G694 matches the Greek ἀργύριον (argyrion),
which occurs 306 times in 273 verses in the LXX Greek.

Page 3 / 6 (1Ki 16:24–2Ch 5:1)

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 16:24

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:24 - He bought the hill of Samaria from Shemer for two talents[fn] of silver, and he fortified the hill and called the name of the city that he built Samaria, after the name of Shemer, the owner of the hill.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 20:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:3 - ‘Your silver and your gold are mine; your best wives and children also are mine.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 20:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:5 - The messengers came again and said, “Thus says Ben-hadad: ‘I sent to you, saying, “Deliver to me your silver and your gold, your wives and your children.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 20:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:7 - Then the king of Israel called all the elders of the land and said, “Mark, now, and see how this man is seeking trouble, for he sent to me for my wives and my children, and for my silver and my gold, and I did not refuse him.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 20:39

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

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 21:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:2 - And after this Ahab said to Naboth, “Give me your vineyard, that I may have it for a vegetable garden, because it is near my house, and I will give you a better vineyard for it; or, if it seems good to you, I will give you its value in money.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 21:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:6 - And he said to her, “Because I spoke to Naboth the Jezreelite and said to him, ‘Give me your vineyard for money, or else, if it please you, I will give you another vineyard for it.’ And he answered, ‘I will not give you my vineyard.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 21:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:15 - As soon as Jezebel heard that Naboth had been stoned and was dead, Jezebel said to Ahab, “Arise, take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, which he refused to give you for money, for Naboth is not alive, but dead.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 5:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:5 - And the king of Syria said, “Go now, and I will send a letter to the king of Israel.” So he went, taking with him ten talents of silver, six thousand shekels[fn] of gold, and ten changes of clothing.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 5:22

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

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 5:23

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:23 - And Naaman said, “Be pleased to accept two talents.” And he urged him and tied up two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of clothing, and laid them on two of his servants. And they carried them before Gehazi.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 5:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:26 - But he said to him, “Did not my heart go when the man turned from his chariot to meet you? Was it a time to accept money and garments, olive orchards and vineyards, sheep and oxen, male servants and female servants?

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 6:25

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:25 - And there was a great famine in Samaria, as they besieged it, until a donkey’s head was sold for eighty shekels of silver, and the fourth part of a kab[fn] of dove’s dung for five shekels of silver.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 7:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:8 - And when these lepers came to the edge of the camp, they went into a tent and ate and drank, and they carried off silver and gold and clothing and went and hid them. Then they came back and entered another tent and carried off things from it and went and hid them.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 12:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 12:4 - Jehoash said to the priests, “All the money of the holy things that is brought into the house of the LORD, the money for which each man is assessed—the money from the assessment of persons—and the money that a man’s heart prompts him to bring into the house of the LORD,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 12:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 12:7 - Therefore King Jehoash summoned Jehoiada the priest and the other priests and said to them, “Why are you not repairing the house? Now therefore take no more money from your donors, but hand it over for the repair of the house.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 12:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 12:8 - So the priests agreed that they should take no more money from the people, and that they should not repair the house.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 12:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 12:9 - Then Jehoiada the priest took a chest and bored a hole in the lid of it and set it beside the altar on the right side as one entered the house of the LORD. And the priests who guarded the threshold put in it all the money that was brought into the house of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 12:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 12:10 - And whenever they saw that there was much money in the chest, the king’s secretary and the high priest came up and they bagged and counted the money that was found in the house of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 12:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 12:11 - Then they would give the money that was weighed out into the hands of the workmen who had the oversight of the house of the LORD. And they paid it out to the carpenters and the builders who worked on the house of the LORD,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 12:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 12:13 - But there were not made for the house of the LORD basins of silver, snuffers, bowls, trumpets, or any vessels of gold, or of silver, from the money that was brought into the house of the LORD,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 12:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 12:15 - And they did not ask for an accounting from the men into whose hand they delivered the money to pay out to the workmen, for they dealt honestly.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 12:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 12:16 - The money from the guilt offerings and the money from the sin offerings was not brought into the house of the LORD; it belonged to the priests.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 14:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:14 - And he seized all the gold and silver, and all the vessels that were found in the house of the LORD and in the treasuries of the king’s house, also hostages, and he returned to Samaria.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 15:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 15:19 - Pul[fn] the king of Assyria came against the land, and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents[fn] of silver, that he might help him to confirm his hold on the royal power.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 15:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 15:20 - Menahem exacted the money from Israel, that is, from all the wealthy men, fifty shekels[fn] of silver from every man, to give to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria turned back and did not stay there in the land.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 16:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:8 - Ahaz also took the silver and gold that was found in the house of the LORD and in the treasures of the king’s house and sent a present to the king of Assyria.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 18:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:14 - And Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria at Lachish, saying, “I have done wrong; withdraw from me. Whatever you impose on me I will bear.” And the king of Assyria required of Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents[fn] of silver and thirty talents of gold.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 18:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:15 - And Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in the house of the LORD and in the treasuries of the king’s house.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 20:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:13 - And Hezekiah welcomed them, and he showed them all his treasure house, the silver, the gold, the spices, the precious oil, his armory, all that was found in his storehouses. There was nothing in his house or in all his realm that Hezekiah did not show them.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 22:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:4 - “Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may count the money that has been brought into the house of the LORD, which the keepers of the threshold have collected from the people.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 22:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:7 - But no accounting shall be asked from them for the money that is delivered into their hand, for they deal honestly.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 22:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:9 - And Shaphan the secretary came to the king, and reported to the king, “Your servants have emptied out the money that was found in the house and have delivered it into the hand of the workmen who have the oversight of the house of the LORD.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:33

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:33 - And Pharaoh Neco put him in bonds at Riblah in the land of Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem, and laid on the land a tribute of a hundred talents[fn] of silver and a talent of gold.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:35

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:35 - And Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh, but he taxed the land to give the money according to the command of Pharaoh. He exacted the silver and the gold of the people of the land, from everyone according to his assessment, to give it to Pharaoh Neco.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 18:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 18:11 - These also King David dedicated to the LORD, together with the silver and gold that he had carried off from all the nations, from Edom, Moab, the Ammonites, the Philistines, and Amalek.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 19:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:6 - When the Ammonites saw that they had become a stench to David, Hanun and the Ammonites sent 1,000 talents[fn] of silver to hire chariots and horsemen from Mesopotamia, from Aram-maacah, and from Zobah.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 21:22

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:22 - And David said to Ornan, “Give me the site of the threshing floor that I may build on it an altar to the LORD—give it to me at its full price—that the plague may be averted from the people.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 21:24

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:24 - But King David said to Ornan, “No, but I will buy them for the full price. I will not take for the LORD what is yours, nor offer burnt offerings that cost me nothing.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 22:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 22:14 - With great pains I have provided for the house of the LORD 100,000 talents[fn] of gold, a million talents of silver, and bronze and iron beyond weighing, for there is so much of it; timber and stone, too, I have provided. To these you must add.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 22:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 22:16 - gold, silver, bronze, and iron. Arise and work! The LORD be with you!”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 29:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 29:2 - So I have provided for the house of my God, so far as I was able, the gold for the things of gold, the silver for the things of silver, and the bronze for the things of bronze, the iron for the things of iron, and wood for the things of wood, besides great quantities of onyx and stones for setting, antimony, colored stones, all sorts of precious stones and marble.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 29:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 29:3 - Moreover, in addition to all that I have provided for the holy house, I have a treasure of my own of gold and silver, and because of my devotion to the house of my God I give it to the house of my God:

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 29:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 29:4 - 3,000 talents[fn] of gold, of the gold of Ophir, and 7,000 talents of refined silver, for overlaying the walls of the house,[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 29:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 29:7 - They gave for the service of the house of God 5,000 talents and 10,000 darics[fn] of gold, 10,000 talents of silver, 18,000 talents of bronze and 100,000 talents of iron.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 1:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 1:15 - And the king made silver and gold as common in Jerusalem as stone, and he made cedar as plentiful as the sycamore of the Shephelah.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 1:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 1:17 - They imported a chariot from Egypt for 600 shekels[fn] of silver, and a horse for 150. Likewise through them these were exported to all the kings of the Hittites and the kings of Syria.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 2:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:7 - So now send me a man skilled to work in gold, silver, bronze, and iron, and in purple, crimson, and blue fabrics, trained also in engraving, to be with the skilled workers who are with me in Judah and Jerusalem, whom David my father provided.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 2:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:14 - the son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father was a man of Tyre. He is trained to work in gold, silver, bronze, iron, stone, and wood, and in purple, blue, and crimson fabrics and fine linen, and to do all sorts of engraving and execute any design that may be assigned him, with your craftsmen, the craftsmen of my lord, David your father.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 5:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 5:1 - Thus all the work that Solomon did for the house of the LORD was finished. And Solomon brought in the things that David his father had dedicated, and stored the silver, the gold, and all the vessels in the treasuries of the house of God.

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