Words the Bible translates as small copper coin
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 2 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- leptosλεπτόςa lepton: the smallest coin in circulation, a tiny thin scrap of bronze worth so little that two of them came to about six minutes of a day's wage
- kodrantēsκοδράντηςa quadrans: the smallest Roman coin still being struck, a quarter of the little copper piece called an as, worth about a sixty-fourth of a day's wage, and used as a byword for the least amount of money there is
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