Dram

American Tract Society Bible Dictionary

Ezra 2:69 , a gold coin of Persia, worth about five dollars.

Easton's Bible Dictionary

1 Chronicles 29:7Ezra 8:27Ezra 2:69Nehemiah 7:70Daric

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

DRAM , from the Gr. drachma , is used in AV [Note: Authorized Version.] to render two words which RV [Note: Revised Version.] , with questionable accuracy, has rendered ‘darics’ (see more fully under Money, § 4 ). The ‘ten pieces of silver’ of Luke 15:8 f., however, were real drachmas, as marg. of AV [Note: Authorized Version.] and RV [Note: Revised Version.] , for which see Money, § 7 .

Morrish Bible Dictionary

See WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Dram. See Daric.

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(n.) A minute quantity; a mite.

(2):

(n.) A weight; in Apothecaries' weight, one eighth part of an ounce, or sixty grains; in Avoirdupois weight, one sixteenth part of an ounce, or 27.34375 grains.

(3):

(n.) As much spirituous liquor as is usually drunk at once; as, a dram of brandy; hence, a potation or potion; as, a dram of poison.

(4):

(n.) A Persian daric.

(5):

(v. i. & t.) To drink drams; to ply with drams.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

See Drachma; Money .

Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblial Literature

Fig. 152—Persian Daric

Gesenius and most others are of opinion that the word which occurs in;;;; denotes the Persian Daric, a gold coin, which must have been in circulation among the Jews during their subjection to the Persians. This coin is of interest, not only as the most ancient gold coin of which any specimens have been preserved to the present day, but as the earliest coined money which, we can be sure, was known to and used by the Jews. The distinguishing mark of the coin was a crowned archer, who appears with some slight variations on different specimens.

His garb is the same which is seen in the sculptures at Persepolis, and the figure on the coin is called, in numismatics, Sagittarius. The specimens weighed by Dr. Bernard were fifteen grains heavier than an English guinea, and their intrinsic value may, therefore, be reckoned at twenty-five shillings.

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Bibliography InformationMcClintock, John. Strong, James. Entry for 'Dram'. Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tce/d/dram.html. Harper & Brothers. New York. 1870.