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Webster 1913 Edition

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Noun.

[Heb.

g[GREEK]rah

, lit., a bean.]

(Jewish Antiq.)

A small coin and weight; 1-20th of a shekel.

☞ The silver gerah is supposed to have been worth about three cents; the gold about fifty-four cents; the weight equivalent to about thirteen grains.

gerah ‎(plural gerahs)

An ancient Hebrew unit of weight and currency equal to one twentieth of a shekel.
- New International Version (NIV), Exodus 30:13
  "Each one who crosses over to those already counted is to give a half shekel, according to the sanctuary shekel, which weighs twenty gerahs."
- New International Version (NIV), Leviticus 27:25
  "Every value is to be set according to the sanctuary shekel, twenty gerahs to the shekel"