Lexical Summary statēr: a stater (a coin) Original Word: στατήρTransliteration: statēr Phonetic Spelling: (stat-air') Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Short Definition: a stater (a coin) Meaning: a stater (a coin) Strong's Concordance coin, a staterFrom the base of kauchesis; a stander (standard of value), i.e. (specially), a stater or certain coin -- piece of money. see GREEK kauchesis Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 4715: στατήρστατήρ, στατηρος, ὁ (from ἵστημι, to place in the scales, weigh out (i. e. 'the weigher' (Vanicek, p. 1126))), a stater, a coin; in the N. T. a silver stater equivalent to four Attic or two Alexandrian drachmas, a Jewish shekel (see δίδραχμον): Matthew 17:27. |