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Girah vs Gerah - What's the difference?

girah | gerah |

As nouns the difference between girah and gerah

is that girah is a former unit of length in India and Pakistan, approximately 2.25 inches (5.715 cm) while gerah is an ancient Hebrew unit of weight and currency equal to one twentieth of a shekel.

girah

English

Alternative forms

* geerah

Noun

(en noun)
  • A former unit of length in India and Pakistan, approximately 2.25 inches (5.715 cm).

    • gerah

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia gerah) (en noun)
  • an ancient Hebrew unit of weight and currency equal to one twentieth of a shekel
  • *"Each one who crosses over to those already counted is to give a half shekel, [a] according to the sanctuary shekel, which weighs twenty gerahs ."[http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?book_id=2&chapter=30&verse=13&version=31&context=verse]
  • *"Every value is to be set according to the sanctuary shekel, twenty gerahs to the shekel"[http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?book_id=3&chapter=27&verse=25&version=31&context=verse]

    • References

    * English terms derived from Hebrew