UBS Greek Dictionary Article

Form 1

Part of speech: adjc.

Inflections: ταλαντιαῖος; -α, -ον

Sense 1: weighing a talent

Semantic entry: 86.5

Semantic domains: Weight

Subdomains: Pound, Talent [Specific Units of Weight]

Definition: pertaining to weighing a talent or 125 Roman pounds of twelve ounces each or approximately ninety pounds (English weight) or forty kilograms

Notes: It may, however, be better to use in OET REV 16:21 an expression with a more general sense, for example, ‘great stones of hail weighing almost a hundred pounds’ or ‘… forty kilos.’

Further resources: realia:11.2.3

Show passage in OET: REV 16:21

OET-RV REV 16:21

21 Then thirty kilogram hailstones dropped onto people from the sky. The people swore at God because of the hail, because it was incredibly terrible!

OET-LV REV 16:21

21 And a_hail great, about a_talanton_of _silver_weight, is _coming _down out _of the sky on the people, and slandered the people the god, because/for the plague of _the hail, because great is the plague of _it exceedingly.

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UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

ταλαντιαῖος

Form 1

Sense 1: weighing a talent