Gloss
talent (weight and monetary unit; about 57 to 80 lbs.); a talent of silver was about 6,000 days' wages (denarii) of a common laborer and a talent of gold was about 180,000 day's wages, often implying a vast, unattainable amount
Forms of the word
Dictionary
τάλαντον, -ου, τό
Greek transliteration
talanton
Simplified transliteration
talanton
Numbers
Strong's number
5007
GK Number
5419
Statistics
Frequency in New Testament
14
Morphology of Biblical Greek Tag
n-2c
Definition
Greek-English Concordance for τάλαντον
| Matthew 18:24 | And when he had begun to settle them, a man who owed ten thousand talents (talantōn | ταλάντων | gen pl neut) was brought to him. |
| Matthew 25:15 | To one he gave five talents (talanta | τάλαντα | acc pl neut), to another two, to another one — to each according to his ability. Then he went on his journey. |
| Matthew 25:16 | The one who had received five talents (talanta | τάλαντα | acc pl neut) went immediately and put his money to work and gained another five. |
| Matthew 25:20 | The one who had received the five talents (talanta | τάλαντα | acc pl neut) came and brought another five, saying, ‘Master, you entrusted five talents (talanta | τάλαντα | acc pl neut) to me; look, I have gained five more.’ |
| Matthew 25:22 | The one who had received the two talents (talanta | τάλαντα | acc pl neut) also came, saying, “Master, you entrusted two talents (talanta | τάλαντα | acc pl neut) to me. Look, I have gained two more.’ |
| Matthew 25:24 | Then the one who had received the one talent (talanton | τάλαντον | acc sg neut) also came, saying, ‘Master, I knew that you were an unscrupulous man, reaping where you have not sown and gathering where you scattered no seed; |
| Matthew 25:25 | and being afraid, I went off and hid your talent (talanton | τάλαντον | acc sg neut) in the ground. Look, you have what is yours.’ |
| Matthew 25:28 | So take the talent (talanton | τάλαντον | acc sg neut) away from him, and give it to the one who has the ten talents (talanta | τάλαντα | acc pl neut). |
