Strong's #1871: darkmown (pronounced dar-kem-one')
of Pers. origin; a "drachma," or coin:--dram.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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darkemôn
1) daric, drachma, dram, unit of measure from Babylon; 128 grains (8.32 grams) of gold worth about $120 dollars and 128 grains of silver worth about $2.40
1a) a gold coin current in Palestine in the period after the return
Part of Speech: noun masculine
Relation: of Persian origin
Usage:
This word is used 4 times:
Ezra 2:69: "of the work threescore and one thousand drams of gold, and five thousand"
Nehemiah 7:70: "The Tirshatha to the treasure a thousand drams of gold, fifty basins,"
Nehemiah 7:71: "gave to the treasure of the work twenty thousand drams of gold, and two thousand"
Nehemiah 7:72: "gave was twenty thousand drams of gold, and two thousand pound of silver,"