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A Dictionary of the Bible | 1997 | | Copyright

drachma A unit of money in NT times. In the parable of Luke 15: 8–9 the silver coins (NRSV, REB), ten drachmas (NJB), refer to coins of Greek origin, circulating amongst all Hellenistic peoples, and worth about the same as the Roman denarius; two of these were sufficient to pay the innkeeper's bill for looking after the victim of a mugging (Luke 10: 35).

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drachma

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drach·ma / ˈdräkmə/ • n. (pl. -mas or -mae / -mē/ ) the basic monetary unit of Greece (until the introduction of the euro), notionally equal to 100 lepta. ∎ a silver coin of ancient Greece.

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drachma

Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes | 2007 | Copyright

drachma •Alabama, clamour (US clamor), crammer, gamma, glamour (US glamor), gnamma, grammar, hammer, jammer, lamber, mamma, rammer, shammer, slammer, stammer, yammer •Padma • magma • drachma •Alma, halma, Palma •Cranmer • asthma • mahatma •miasma, plasma •jackhammer • sledgehammer •yellowhammer • windjammer •flimflammer • programmer •amah, armour (US armor), Atacama, Brahma, Bramah, charmer, cyclorama, dharma, diorama, disarmer, drama, embalmer, farmer, Kama, karma, lama, llama, Matsuyama, panorama, Parma, pranayama, Rama, Samar, Surinamer, Vasco da Gama, Yama, Yokohama •snake-charmer • docudrama •melodrama •contemner, dilemma, Emma, emmer, Jemma, lemma, maremma, stemma, tremor •Elmer, Selma, Thelma, Velma •Mesmer •claimer, defamer, framer, proclaimer, Shema, tamer

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