Weights
24 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
16 sections
- (Heavy) of the Exceeding Glory Reserved for Saints
- All Metals Were Given By
- Bekah or Half Shekel
- Dram
- Generally Regulated by the Standard of the Sanctuary
- Gerah
- Maneh or Pound
- Must be Just
- Provisions Were Sold By, in Times of Scarcity
- Shekel
- Sometimes Regulated by the King's Standard
- Talent
- The Jews: Forbidden to Have Unjust
- The Jews: Forbidden to Have Various
- The Jews: Frequently Used Unjust
- Value of Money Estimated According To
(Heavy) of the Exceeding Glory Reserved for Saints
- 2 Corinthians 4:17 For our light and momentary affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory that is far beyond comparison.
All Metals Were Given By
- Exodus 37:24 He made the lampstand and all its utensils from a talent of pure gold.
- 1 Chronicles 28:14 the weight of all the gold articles for every kind of service; the weight of all the silver articles for every kind of service;
Bekah or Half Shekel
- Genesis 24:22 And after the camels had finished drinking, he took out a gold ring weighing a beka, and two gold bracelets for her wrists weighing ten shekels.
Dram
- Nehemiah 7:70–71 Some of the heads of the families contributed to the project. The governor gave to the treasury 1,000 darics of gold, 50 bowls, and 530 priestly garments. …
Generally Regulated by the Standard of the Sanctuary
- Exodus 30:24 500 shekels of cassia — all according to the sanctuary shekel — and a hin of olive oil.
Gerah
- Exodus 30:13 Everyone who crosses over to those counted must pay a half shekel, according to the sanctuary shekel, which weighs twenty gerahs. This half shekel is an offering to the LORD.
- Ezekiel 45:12 The shekel will consist of twenty gerahs. Twenty shekels plus twenty-five shekels plus fifteen shekels will equal one mina.
Maneh or Pound
- Nehemiah 7:71 And some of the heads of the families gave to the treasury for the project 20,000 darics of gold and 2,200 minas of silver.
- Ezekiel 45:12 The shekel will consist of twenty gerahs. Twenty shekels plus twenty-five shekels plus fifteen shekels will equal one mina.
Must be Just
- Leviticus 19:35–36 You must not use dishonest measures of length, weight, or volume. …
- Deuteronomy 25:13–15 You shall not have two differing weights in your bag, one heavy and one light. …
- Proverbs 11:1 Dishonest scales are an abomination to the LORD, but an accurate weight is His delight.
- Proverbs 16:11 Honest scales and balances are from the LORD; all the weights in the bag are His concern.
- Proverbs 20:10 Differing weights and unequal measures— both are detestable to the LORD.
- Proverbs 20:23 Unequal weights are detestable to the LORD, and dishonest scales are no good.
- Micah 6:10–11 Can I forget any longer, O house of the wicked, the treasures of wickedness and the short ephah, which is accursed? …
Provisions Were Sold By, in Times of Scarcity
- Leviticus 26:26 When I cut off your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in a single oven and dole out your bread by weight, so that you will eat but not be satisfied.
- Ezekiel 4:10 You are to weigh out twenty shekels of food to eat each day, and you are to eat it at set times.
- Ezekiel 4:16 Then He told me, “Son of man, I am going to cut off the supply of food in Jerusalem. They will anxiously eat bread rationed by weight, and in despair they will drink water by measure.
Shekel
- Exodus 30:13 Everyone who crosses over to those counted must pay a half shekel, according to the sanctuary shekel, which weighs twenty gerahs. This half shekel is an offering to the LORD.
- Ezekiel 45:12 The shekel will consist of twenty gerahs. Twenty shekels plus twenty-five shekels plus fifteen shekels will equal one mina.
Sometimes Regulated by the King's Standard
- 2 Samuel 14:26 And when he cut the hair of his head— he shaved it every year because his hair got so heavy— he would weigh it out to be two hundred shekels, according to the royal standard.
Talent
- 2 Samuel 12:30 Then he took the crown from the head of their king. It weighed a talent of gold and was set with precious stones, and it was placed on David’s head. And David took a great amount of plunder from the city.
- Revelation 16:21 And great hailstones weighing almost a hundred pounds each rained down on them from above. And men cursed God for the plague of hail, because it was so horrendous.
The Jews: Forbidden to Have Unjust
- Leviticus 19:35–36 You must not use dishonest measures of length, weight, or volume. …
The Jews: Forbidden to Have Various
- Deuteronomy 25:13–14 You shall not have two differing weights in your bag, one heavy and one light. …
The Jews: Frequently Used Unjust
- Micah 6:11 Can I excuse dishonest scales or bags of false weights?
Value of Money Estimated According To
- Genesis 23:16 Abraham agreed to Ephron’s terms and weighed out for him the price he had named in the hearing of the Hittites: four hundred shekels of silver, according to the standard of the merchants.
- Genesis 43:21 But when we came to the place we lodged for the night, we opened our sacks and, behold, each of us found his silver in the mouth of his sack! It was the full amount of our silver, and we have brought it back with us.
- Jeremiah 32:9 So I bought the field in Anathoth from my cousin Hanamel, and I weighed out seventeen shekels of silver.
Related topics
Weights were Frequently Used in Scales or BalancesWeights of SinsWeights of the Restraints Put on the ElementsBalancesBread in Times of Scarcity, Sold by WeightMeasures
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.