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The Akkadian talent was called kakkaru [5] [6] in the Akkadian language, [7] corresponding to Biblical Hebrew kikkar כִּכָּר (translated as Greek τάλαντον 'talanton' in the Septuagint, [8] English 'talent'), Ugaritic kkr (𐎋𐎋𐎗), [9] Phoenician kkr (𐤒𐤒𐤓), [10] Syriac kakra (ܟܲܟܪܵܐ), [11] and apparently to gaggaru in the Amarna Tablets. [12]
As a unit of currency, a talent was worth about 6,000 denarii. [1] A denarius was the usual payment for a day's labour. [1] At one denarius per day, a single talent was therefore worth 20 years of labor (assuming a 6-day work week, because nobody would work on the weekly Sabbath).
The origin of the name "shekel" (שֶׁקֶל) is from the ancient Biblical currency by the same name. An early Biblical reference is Abraham being reported to pay "four hundred shekels of silver" to Ephron the Hittite for the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron (Genesis 23:15–16).
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Shekel came into the English language via the Hebrew Bible, where it is first used in Genesis 23. The term "shekel" has been used for a unit of weight, around 9.6 or 9.8 grams (0.31 or 0.32 ozt), used in Bronze Age Europe for balance weights and fragments of bronze that may have served as money.
The mina for the heavy royal talent weighed 1.01 kilograms (2.23 lbs), while that for the heavy common talent weighed only 984 grams (2.17 lbs); accordingly, the heavy common shekel would be about 15.87 grams (0.56 oz). [1]
In Plautus, 20 minae is mentioned as the price of buying a slave. [21] It was also the price of hiring a courtesan for a year. [22] 40 minae is given as the price of a house. [23] In classical Latin the approximate equivalent of a mina was the libra (the word also meant "balance" or "weighing scales"). [24]
Matthew 25:29 in the King James Version. The Matthew effect, sometimes called the Matthew principle, is the tendency of individuals to accrue social or economic success in proportion to their initial level of popularity, friends, and wealth.