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Dram

Easton's Bible Dictionary

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The Authorized Version understood the word 'adarkonim (1 Chronicles 29:7; Ezra 8:27 ), and the similar word darkomnim (Ezra 2:69; Nehemiah 7:70 ), as equivalent to the Greek silver coin the drachma. But the Revised Version rightly regards it as the Greek dareikos, a Persian gold coin (the daric) of the value of about 1 pound, 2s., which was first struck by Darius, the son of Hystaspes, and was current in Western Asia long after the fall of the Persian empire. (See DARIC .)

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Easton, Matthew George. Entry for 'Dram'. Easton's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​ebd/​d/dram.html. 1897.
 
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