Pieces

"(1) of silver. In Ps. 68:30 denotes "fragments," and not" "properly money. In 1 Sam. 2:36 (Heb. agorah), properly a "small" "sum" as wages, weighed rather than coined. Josh. 24:32 (Heb." "kesitah, q.v.), supposed by some to have been a piece of money" "bearing the figure of a lamb, but rather simply a certain" amount. (Comp. Gen. 33:19). "(2.) The word pieces is omitted in many passages, as Gen. 20:16; "37:28; 45:22, etc. The passage in Zech. 11:12, 13 is quoted in" "the Gospel (Matt. 26:15), and from this we know that the word to" "be supplied is "shekels." In all these omissions we may thus" warrantably supply this word. "(3.) The "piece of money" mentioned in Matt. 17:27 is a stater=a "Hebrew shekel, or four Greek drachmae; and that in Luke 15:8, 9," "Act 19:19, a Greek drachma=a denarius. (See [487]PENNY.)"