ὀβολός
obol (small coin)
Where this word appears
Every passage where ὀβολός appears in the Greek Septuagint — 7 occurrences in all. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Exodus 30:13 ὀβολός And this is what they shall give, as many as pass the survey, half a didrachm which is according to the didrachm of the sanctuary: twenty oboli go to the didrachm, but the half of the didrachm is the offering to the Lord.
- Leviticus 27:25 ὀβολός And every valuation shall be by holy weights: the didrachm shall be twenty oboli.
- Numbers 3:47 ὀβολός you shall even take five shekels a head; you shall take them according to the holy didrachm, twenty oboli to the shekel.
- Numbers 18:16 ὀβολός And the redemption of them shall be from a month old; their valuation of five shekels—it is twenty oboli according to the holy shekel.
- 1 Samuel 2:36 ὀβολός And it shall come to pass that he that survives in your house, shall come to do obeisance before him for a little piece of silver, saying, Put me into one of your priest's offices to eat bread.
- Proverbs 17:6 ὀβολός Children's children are the crown of old men; and their fathers are the glory of children. The faithful has the whole world full of wealth; but the faithless not even a farthing.
- Ezekiel 45:12 ὀβολός And the weights shall be twenty oboli, your pound shall be five shekels, fifteen shekels and fifty shekels.
About this word
About this word
ὀβολός (obolós), “obol (small coin),” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 7 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →