Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Babylonian and Hebrew weight. See
mina .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A Hebrew weight for gold or silver, being one hundred shekels of gold and sixty shekels of silver.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An obsolete unit of
Hebrew currency, larger than ashekel .
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Examples
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But when the maneh is set for a sum of money or coin it contains but sixty shekels, as appears here, where twenty shekels, twenty-five shekels, and fifteen shekels, which in all make sixty, shall be the maneh.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721
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The shekel and the maneh were the only medium of exchange.
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The deed is as follows: “Gugûa, the daughter of Zakir, the son of a native of Isin, has voluntarily sealed and delivered to her eldest son, Ea-zir-ibni, her dowry, consisting of one maneh which is in the keeping of Nebo-akhi-iddin, the son of Sula, the son of Egibi; 35 shekels which have been mortgaged to Tabnea, the son of
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April 22, 2010 at 8:38 am wow… matur suwun maneh paklik…
I be in teh dicshunary! - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2010
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The basic ketubbah of a virgin (two hundred maneh [one maneh = fifty shekels]) was double that of a non-virgin (one hundred maneh) (Mishnah Ketubbot 1: 2).
Legal-Religious Status of the Virgin. leBeit Yoreh 2009
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This difference was doubled in the case of the daughter of a priest who was a virgin, whose basic ketubbah was four hundred maneh (Mishnah Ketubbot 1: 5).
Legal-Religious Status of the Virgin. leBeit Yoreh 2009
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July 30, 2008 at 1:00 am ebben ai gotted da descripshun of annipuss in mai head how u can has a nawt sekkund… and ifn ai unnerstood maneh otters can has unnerstood to… as we see ebbery day nao.
I don’t care who started it… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs: twenty shekels, five and twenty shekels, fifteen shekels, shall be your maneh.
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And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs: twenty shekels, five and twenty shekels, fifteen shekels, shall be your maneh.
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And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs: twenty shekels, five and twenty shekels, fifteen shekels, shall be your maneh.
Ezekiel 45. 1999
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