5475 - chalkos

Strong's Concordance

Original word: χαλκός
Transliteration: chalkos
Definition (short): money
Definition (full): copper or bronze

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin: a prim. word
Definition: copper or bronze
NASB Translation: bronze (1), copper (1), gong (1), money (2).
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

Perhaps from chalao through the idea of hollowing out as a vessel (this metal being chiefly used for that purpose); copper (the substance, or some implement or coin made of it) -- brass, money.

see GREEK chalao

KJV: Provide neither gold, nor silver, nor brass in your purses,
NASB: "Do not acquire gold, or silver, or copper for your money belts,
KJV: And commanded them that they should take nothing for their journey, save a staff only; no scrip, no bread, no money in their purse:
NASB: and He instructed them that they should take nothing for their journey, except a mere staff-- no bread, no bag, no money in their belt--
KJV: And Jesus sat over against the treasury, and beheld how the people cast money into the treasury: and many that were rich cast in much.
NASB: And He sat down opposite the treasury, and began observing how the people were putting money into the treasury; and many rich people were putting in large sums.
KJV: Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
NASB: If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
KJV: The merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and all manner vessels of ivory, and all manner vessels of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble,
NASB: cargoes of gold and silver and precious stones and pearls and fine linen and purple and silk and scarlet, and every kind of citron wood and every article of ivory and every article made from very costly wood and bronze and iron and marble,