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Farthing

Farthing a diminutive of the Latin as, was one-tenth of a drachma, or one-sixteenth of a Roman denarius, i.e., about three farthings, Mat 10:29, Luk 12:6. was the Latin quadrans, "the fourth part of an as" (se...

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Farthing <1,,787, assarion>

a diminutive of the Latin as, was one-tenth of a drachma, or one-sixteenth of a Roman denarius, i.e., about three farthings, Mat 10:29, Luk 12:6.

<2,,2835, kodrantes>

was the Latin quadrans, "the fourth part of an as" (see No. 1), about two thirds of a farthing, Mat 5:26, Mar 12:42.

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