Bible Encyclopedia: Weights: Talent

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Greek

5007. talanton -- a balance, hence that which is weighed, ie a ...
... equivalent to phero); a balance (as supporting weights), ie (by implication) a certain
weight (and thence a coin or rather sum of money) or "talent" -- talent. ...
//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/5007.htm - 7k

Library

Some Gospel Truths Opened, According to the Scriptures; Or, the ...
... Short weights and deceit were declared an abomination to the Lord, in fairs ... their
hazardous adventures, zeal, and no ordinary degree of ready wit and talent. ...
/.../the works of john bunyan volumes 1-3/some gospel truths opened according.htm

The Broken Oar.
... We cannot but think of Circuit after Circuit where men of talent and influence are
keeping the Church of God from coming to ... LORD, SAVE US FROM DEAD WEIGHTS! ...
//christianbookshelf.org/champness/broken bread/l the broken oar.htm

Commerce
... Even if Jewish talent could have identified itself with the pursuits of the ...
Inspectorships of weights and measures are of comparatively late date in our own ...
/.../edersheim/sketches of jewish social life/chapter 12 commerce.htm

A New Order of Priests and Levites
... Thus he puts upon their shoulders his easy yoke and weights them with his light
burden ... men on account of some natural bent and bias, or gift and talent, but I ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 17 1871/a new order of priests.htm

Upon Our Lord's SermonOn the Mount
... for happiness: For here also they will be found "deceitful upon the weights." Indeed
this ... waste our money we are not only guilty of wasting a talent which God ...
/.../wesley/sermons on several occasions/sermon 28 upon our lords.htm

Prayer-Equipment for Preachers
... Whatever of human gift, talent or force a preacher may possess it is not to be ...
Unrighteous lives among the laity heavily weights down the Word of the Lord and ...
/.../bounds/the weapon of prayer/ix prayer-equipment for preachers.htm

Of Uncharitable Truth.
... and yet his (though really the lighter) shall prove Zechariah's talent of lead ... count
them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights? ...
/.../allestree/the government of the tongue/section vi of uncharitable truth.htm

Man's Chief End
... God has given every man a talent; and when a man does not hide it in ... balances of
deceit are in his hands;' and thus while men make their weights lighter, they ...
//christianbookshelf.org/watson/a body of divinity/1 mans chief end.htm

Book ii.
... Moreover, if any one cheats another in measures or weights, or makes a knavish ... They
also made this public proclamation, "That they would give a talent to any ...
//christianbookshelf.org/josephus/against apion/book ii.htm

Chaldaean Civilization
History Of Egypt, Chaldaea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, V 3. <. ...
/.../chapter iiichaldaean civilization.htm

Torrey's Topical Textbook

2 Samuel 12:30
And he took their king's crown from off his head, the weight whereof was a talent of gold with the precious stones: and it was set on David's head. And he brought forth the spoil of the city in great abundance.
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Revelation 16:21
And there fell on men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent: and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great.
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Subtopics

Weights

Weights and Measures

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Weights of the Restraints Put on the Elements

Weights were Frequently Used in Scales or Balances

Weights: (Heavy) of the Exceeding Glory Reserved for Saints

Weights: All Metals Were Given By

Weights: Bekah or Half Shekel

Weights: Dram

Weights: Generally Regulated by the Standard of the Sanctuary

Weights: Gerah