כברChichar. Τάλαντον.TALENT, Talentum, in Hebrew, Chichar. The Hebrew Talent [of Silver] was equivalent to three thousand Shekels, Exod. xxxviii, 24, 25, 26. and consequently was of the Weight of fifteen hundred Roman Ounces, or twenty-five Roman Pounds; and of our [French] Weight [reduced to English] one hundred and fourteen Pounds and fifteen penny-weight Troy.³ And its Value in [English] Money was three hundred forty-two Pounds three Shillings and nine Pence. The Talent of Gold was of the same Weight, and its Value was five thousand four hundred and seventy-five Pounds Sterling.
The common Attick Talent was of the Value of Two thousand four hundred Pounds.
Several Authors have pretended that among the Hebrews there were two sorts of Talents, the larger, and the smaller; the Talent of the Sanctuary, and the common Talent: The first, they say, was double to the other. But I cannot find any Foundation for this Distinction in Scripture. The Reader may see the Reduction of the Talent to our Money, in the Tables printed at the End of this Dictionary, and in such Authors as have made express Treatises concerning the Coins of the Ancients.