MONEY

- Gold and silver used as Ge 13:2; Nu 22:18 - Brass introduced as, by the Romans Mt 10:9 - Originally stamped with the image of a lamb Ge 23:15; 33:19; (marg) - Of the Romans, stamped with the image of Caesar Mt 22:20,21 - Usually taken by weight Ge 23:16; Jer 32:10 - PIECES OF MENTIONED . Talent of gold 1Ki 9:14; 2Ki 23:23 . Talent of silver 1Ki 16:24; 2Ki 5:22,23 . Shekel of silver Jud 17:10; 2Ki 15:20 . Half shekel or bekah Ex 30:15 . Third of a shekel Ne 10:32 . Fourth of a shekel 1Sa 9:8 . Gerah the twentieth of a shekel Nu 3:47 . Pound Lu 19:13 . Penny Mt 20:2; Mr 6:37 . Farthing Mt 5:26; Lu 12:6 . Mite Mr 12:42; Lu 21:2 - Of the Jews regulated by the standard of sanctuary Le 5:15; Nu 3:47 - Was current with the merchants Ge 23:16 - Jews forbidden to take usury for Le 25:37 - Changing of, a trade Mt 21:12; Joh 2:15 - WAS GIVEN . For lands Ge 23:9; Ac 4:37 . For slaves Ge 37:28; Ex 21:21 . For merchandise Ge 43:12; De 2:6 . For tribute 2Ki 23:33; Mt 22:19 . As wages Ezr 3:7; Mt 20:2; Jas 5:4 . As offerings 2Ki 12:7-9; Ne 10:32 . As alms 1Sa 2:36; Ac 3:3,6 . Custom of presenting a piece of Job 42:11 . Power and usefulness of Ec 7:12; 10:19 . Love of, the root of all evil 1Ti 6:10

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Was anciently weighed, and did not at first exist in the form of coins. The most ancient commerce was conducted by barter, or exchanging one sort of merchandise for another. One man gave what he could spare to another, who gave him in return part of his superabundance. Afterwards, the more precious metals were used in traffic, as a value more generally known and stated, and the amount agreed upon was paid over by weight, Ge 23:16 43:21 Ex 30:24. Lastly they gave this metal, a certain weight, and a certain degree of alloy, to fix its value, and to save buyers and sellers the trouble of weighing and examining the coins. The first regular coinage among the Jews is supposed to have been in the time of Simon Maccabaeus, less than a century and a half before Christ. The coins were the shekel, and a half, a third, and a quarter of a shekel. The Jewish coins bore an almond rod and a vase of manna, but no image of any man was allowed. Compare Mt 22:16-22. Many Greek and Roman coins circulated in Judea in New Testament times. See MITE, PENNY, SHEKEL. Volney says, "The practice of weighing money is general in Syria, Egypt, and all Turkey. No piece, however effaced, is refused there: the merchant draws out his scales and weighs it, as in the days of Abraham, when he purchased his sepulchre. In considerable payments, an agent of exchange is sent for, who counts paras by thousands, rejects pieces of false money, and weighs all the sequins, either separately or together." This may serve to illustrate the phrase, "current money with the merchant," Ge 23:16; and the references to "divers weights" —a large one to weigh the money received, and a small one for that paid out; and to "wicked balances," De 25:13 Am 8:5 Mic 6:11. Our Savior alludes to a class of "exchangers," who appear to have taken money on deposit, and so used it that the owner might afterwards receive his own with interest, Mt 25:27. There were also money brokers who had stands in the outer court of the temple, probably to exchange foreign for Jewish coins; and to accommodate those who wished to pay the yearly half-shekel tax, Ex 30:15, or to present an offering. They were expelled by the Lord of the temple, not only for obtruding a secular business within the house of prayer, but also for pursuing it dishonestly, Mr 11:15-17. In 1Ti 6:10, Paul speaks of the "love of money" as a root of all evils; censuring not money itself, but the love of it—a prevailing form of human selfishness and covetousness. This passion, to which so many crimes are chargeable, may infest the heart of a poor man as well as that of the rich; for the one may have as much of "the love of money" as the other.

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Money. Money
Of uncoined money the first notice we have is in the history of Abraham (Gen. 13:2; 20:16; 24:35). Next, this word is used in connection with the purchase of the cave of Machpelah (23:16), and again in connection with Jacob’s purchase of a field at Shalem (Gen. 33:18, 19) for “an hundred pieces of money”=an hundred Hebrew kesitahs (q.v.), i.e., probably pieces of money, as is supposed, bearing the figure of a lamb.

The history of Joseph affords evidence of the constant use of money, silver of a fixed weight. This appears also in all the subsequent history of the Jewish people, in all their internal as well as foreign transactions. There were in common use in trade silver pieces of a definite weight, shekels, half-shekels, and quarter-shekels. But these were not properly coins, which are pieces of metal authoritatively issued, and bearing a stamp.

Of the use of coined money we have no early notice among the Hebrews. The first mentioned is of Persian coinage, the daric (Ezra 2:69; Neh. 7:70) and the ‘adarkon (Ezra 8:27). The daric (q.v.) was a gold piece current in Palestine in the time of Cyrus. As long as the Jews, after the Exile, lived under Persian rule, they used Persian coins. These gave place to Greek coins when Palestine came under the dominion of the Greeks (B.C. 331), the coins consisting of gold, silver, and copper pieces. The usual gold pieces were staters (q.v.), and the silver coins tetradrachms and drachms.

In the year B.C. 140, Antiochus VII. gave permission to Simon the Maccabee to coin Jewish money. Shekels (q.v.) were then coined bearing the figure of the almond rod and the pot of manna.

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MONEY. → Silver used as Ge 17:12,13,23,27; 20:16; 23:9,13; 31:15; 37:28; 42:25-35; 43:12-23; 44:1-8; 47:14-18; Ex 12:44; 21:11,21,34,35; 22:7,17,25; 30:16; Le 22:11; 25:37,51; 27:15,18; Nu 3:48-51; 18:16; De 2:6,28; 14:25,26; 21:14; 23:19; Jud 5:19; 16:18; 17:4; 1Ki 21:2,6,15; 2Ki 5:26; 12:4,7-16; 15:20; 22:7,9; 23:35; 2Ch 24:5,11,14; 34:9,14,17; Ezr 3:7; 7:17; Ne 5:4,10,11; Es 4:7; Job 31:39; Ps 15:5; Pr 7:20; Ec 7:12; 10:19; Isa 43:24; 52:3; 55:1,2; Jer 32:9,10,25,44; La 5:4; Mic 3:11; Mt 25:18,27; 28:12,15; Mr 14:11; Lu 9:3; 19:15,23; 22:5; Ac 7:16; 8:20 → Gold used as Ge 13:2; 24:35; 44:8; with 44:1; 1Ch 21:25; Ezr 8:25-27; Isa 13:17; 46:6; 60:9; Eze 7:19; 28:4; Mt 2:11; 10:9; Ac 3:6; 20:33; 1Pe 1:18 → Copper used as Mr 6:8; 12:41 → Weighed Ge 23:16; 43:21; Job 28:15; Jer 32:9,10; Zec 11:12 → Image on Mt 22:20,21 → Conscience Jud 17:2; Mt 27:3,5 → Atonement Ex 30:12-16; Le 5:15,16 → Sin 2Ki 12:16 → Value of, varied corruptly Am 8:5 → Love of, the root of evil 1Ti 6:10 → See FARTHING → See GERAH → See MITE → See PENNY → See POUND → See SHEKEL → See SILVER → See TALENT

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Jer 32:10; Mt 22:19; Mr 12:41; 14:11; 1Ti 6:10 SEE Riches -- Love of. SEE Avarice, COVETOUSNESS COVETOUSNESS Covetousness, COVETOUSNESS COVETOUSNESS -- Value of different pieces of. SEE Tables, 3536 3537

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money. Money, [mummy] n. metal coined for public use

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Mon″ey (?), n.; pl. Moneys (#). [[OE. moneie, OF. moneie, F. monnaie, fr. L. moneta. See Mint place where coin is made, Mind, and cf. Moidore, Monetary.]] 1. 1. A piece of metal, as gold, silver, copper, etc., coined, or stamped, and issued by the sovereign authority as a medium of exchange in financial transactions between citizens and with government; also, any number of such pieces; coin.
To prevent such abuses, . . . it has been found necessary . . . to affix a public stamp upon certain quantities of such particular metals, as were in those countries commonly made use of to purchase goods. Hence the origin of coined money, and of those public offices called mints. A. Smith. 2. 2. Any written or stamped promise, certificate, or order, as a government note, a bank note, a certificate of deposit, etc., which is payable in standard coined money and is lawfully current in lieu of it; in a comprehensive sense, any currency usually and lawfully employed in buying and selling.
☞ Whatever, among barbarous nations, is used as a medium of effecting exchanges of property, and in the terms of which values are reckoned, as sheep, wampum, copper rings, quills of salt or of gold dust, shovel blades, etc., is, in common language, called their money. 3. 3. In general, wealth; property; as, he has much money in land, or in stocks; to make, or lose, money.
The love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. 1 Tim vi. 10 (Rev. Ver. ). Money bill (Legislation), a bill for raising revenue. — Money broker, a broker who deals in different kinds of money; one who buys and sells bills of exchange; — called also money changer. — Money cowrie (Zoöl.), any one of several species of Cypræa (esp. C. moneta) formerly much used as money by savage tribes. See Cowrie. — Money of account, a denomination of value used in keeping accounts, for which there may, or may not, be an equivalent coin; e. g., the mill is a money of account in the United States, but not a coin. — Money order, an order for the payment of money; specifically, a government order for the payment of money, issued at one post office as payable at another; — called also postal money order. — Money scrivener, a person who procures the loan of money to others. — Money spider, Money spinner (Zoöl.), a small spider; — so called as being popularly supposed to indicate that the person upon whom it crawls will be fortunate in money matters. — Money's worth, a fair or full equivalent for the money which is paid. — A piece of money, a single coin. — Ready money, money held ready for payment, or actually paid, at the time of a transaction; cash. — To make money, to gain or acquire money or property; to make a profit in dealings.