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[דַּרְכְּמוֺן, אֲדַרְכּוֺן (א prosthetic)] noun [masculine] unit (apparently of weight, certainly) of value, rare & late, perhaps drachma, others daric, see below: — only plural דַּרְכְּמוֺנִים of gold Ezra 2:69 (|| מָנִים of silver) = Neh 7:70 (|| id.); so דַּרְכְּמֹנִים Neh 7:69; Neh 7:71 also אֲדַרְכֹּנִים of gold money 1Chr 29:7 (|| כִּכָּרִים; ׳ כ also in same see of silver, brass & iron); of weight (or worth) of gold utensils Ezra 8:27. — Weight of Greek δραχμή = 4.32 grammes (= 66.5 English grams); value of silver dr.= c. 9 3/4 d. Eng.; value of gold dr. (1/2 stater) = approximately 9 s. 5 d. English, compare Hultsch^{Gr. u. Röm. Metrol. (1882) 224, 227, 230-250, & Tab. xiv, xvi.} — (If ׳ ד = drachma, then perhaps editorial insertion in Nehemiah Ezra (regarded as loan-word in both Greek & Hebrew from some Asiatic source by Ew^{GGA 1855, 1392 ff.; 1856, 798; Geschichte. i. 274, H. i. 189} compare Sm^{Listen 18, N. 24}, but on Greek derivatives compare Lex. Lidd. & Sc., also Brandis^{Münz-Mass-u. Gewichtssytem 58 f.} Hultsch^{l.c. 131}); compare Phoenician plural דרכמנם , דרכנם = drachmae according to Ren^{Ra 1888, 7} Berger^{MÈm. Soc. Ling. de Paris, 1889, 385} Hoffm^{AGG xxxvi Mai, 1889, 8}. According to view commonly current hitherto ׳ ד = daric, Greek δαρεικός compare Syriac [untranscribed source text 1203], Persian gold coin = approximately English sovereign (weight = approximately 2 drachma): Brandis^{l.c. 62, 244 ff.} Hultsch^{l.c. 466 Schr in} Ri^{HWB Art. Darike} Erman^{ZPV ii, 75} Hoffm^{ZA 1887, 49 ff.} ( Hoffm^{l.c. abandons}), compare Ryle Ezra 2:69.)

דַּרְמֶשֶׂק see דַּמֶּשֶׂק .