Word Summary
assarion: an assarion, a farthing (one tenth of a drachma)
Original Word: ἀσσάριονTransliteration: assarion
Phonetic Spelling: (as-sar'-ee-on)
Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter
Short Definition: an assarion, a farthing (one tenth of a drachma)
Meaning: an assarion, a farthing (one tenth of a drachma)
Strong's Concordance
farthing.
Of Latin origin; an assarius or as, a Roman coin -- farthing.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 787: ἀσσάριονἀσσάριον,
ἀσσαρίου,
τό,
an assarium or assarius, the name of a coin equal to the tenth part of a drachma (see
δηνάριον), (diminutive of the Latin
as, rabbinical
אִיסָּר) (
a penny):
Matthew 10:29;
Luke 12:6. (
Dionysius Halicarnassus,
Plutarch, others.) (Cf.
BB. DD. under the word
.)