787. assarion

Lexicon

assarion: Penny, small coin

Original Word: ἀσσάριον
Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter
Transliteration: assarion
Pronunciation: as-sar'-ee-on
Phonetic Spelling: (as-sar'-ee-on)
KJV: farthing
NASB: cent, cents
Word Origin: [of Latin origin]

1. an assarius or as, a Roman coin

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

farthing.

Of Latin origin; an assarius or as, a Roman coin -- farthing.

HELPS Word-studies

787 assárion – a brass (Roman) coin of little value, i.e. "small change."

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin
of Latin origin
Definition
an assarion, a farthing (one tenth of a drachma)
NASB Translation
cent (1), cents (1).

Thayer's Greek Lexicon

STRONGS NT 787: ἀσσάριον

ἀσσάριον, ἀσσαρίου, τό, an assarium or assarius, the name of a coin equal to the tenth part of a drachma (see δηνάριον), (diminutive of the Latinas, rabbinical אִיסָּר) (a penny): Matthew 10:29; Luke 12:6. (Dionysius Halicarnassus, Plutarch, others.) (Cf. BB. DD. under the word .)

Forms and Transliterations

ασσαριου ασσαρίου ἀσσαρίου ασσαριων ασσαρίων ἀσσαρίων assarion assariōn assaríon assaríōn assariou assaríou

Englishman's Concordance

Matthew 10:29 N-GNS
GRK: δύο στρουθία ἀσσαρίου πωλεῖται καὶ
NAS: sold for a cent? And [yet] not one
KJV: sparrows sold for a farthing? and one
INT: two sparrows for an assarion are sold and

Luke 12:6 N-GNP
GRK: στρουθία πωλοῦνται ἀσσαρίων δύο καὶ
NAS: for two cents? [Yet] not one
KJV: sold for two farthings, and not
INT: sparrows are sold for assarion two and

Strong's Greek 787
2 Occurrences

ἀσσαρίων — 1 Occ.
ἀσσαρίου — 1 Occ.