gerah

English

Noun

Wikipedia gerah (plural gerahs)

1. an ancient Hebrew unit of weight and currency equal to one twentieth of a shekel
   • "Each one who crosses over to those already counted is to give a half shekel, [a] according to the sanctuary shekel, which weighs twenty gerahs."[1]
   • "Every value is to be set according to the sanctuary shekel, twenty gerahs to the shekel"[2]

References

• “gerah” in Wikipedia.