Topical Bible: Amount

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In the context of the Bible, the term "amount" often refers to the quantity or measure of something, whether it be material possessions, offerings, or spiritual attributes. The concept of amount is significant in various biblical narratives and teachings, illustrating principles of stewardship, generosity, and divine provision.

Old Testament References

1. Offerings and Sacrifices: The Old Testament law prescribed specific amounts for offerings and sacrifices. For example, in Leviticus, the Israelites were instructed on the precise amounts of grain, oil, and animals to be offered (Leviticus 2:1-16). These amounts were not arbitrary but were intended to reflect obedience and reverence to God.

2. Manna in the Wilderness: In Exodus 16, God provided manna to the Israelites in the wilderness, instructing them to gather a specific amount each day. "This is what the LORD has commanded: ‘Each one is to gather as much as he needs. You may take an omer for each person in your tent’" (Exodus 16:16). This daily provision taught reliance on God and discouraged hoarding.

3. Tithing: The concept of tithing, or giving a tenth of one's income or produce, is a recurring theme. In Malachi 3:10, God challenges the Israelites to bring the full amount of their tithes into the storehouse, promising blessings in return: "Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in My house. Test Me in this," says the LORD of Hosts, "and see if I will not open the windows of heaven and pour out for you blessing without measure" .

New Testament References

1. The Widow’s Offering: In Mark 12:41-44, Jesus observes people giving offerings at the temple. He highlights the widow who gave two small coins, noting that her small amount was greater in value than the larger sums given by the wealthy, because she gave all she had. "Truly I tell you, this poor widow has put more into the treasury than all the others" (Mark 12:43).

2. Parable of the Talents: In Matthew 25:14-30, Jesus tells the parable of the talents, where servants are entrusted with different amounts of money. The parable emphasizes faithful stewardship and the importance of using what one has been given to produce more. The servant who wisely invested his five talents was commended, while the one who buried his single talent was rebuked.

3. Generosity and Giving: The New Testament encourages believers to give generously, regardless of the amount. In 2 Corinthians 9:6-7, Paul writes, "Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously. Each one should give what he has decided in his heart to give, not out of regret or compulsion. For God loves a cheerful giver" .

Spiritual Implications

The Bible teaches that the amount given or received is less important than the heart and intention behind it. Whether in the context of financial giving, spiritual gifts, or acts of service, the focus is on faithfulness, trust in God's provision, and the willingness to use one's resources for His glory. The principle of amount in Scripture underscores the belief that God values the quality of one's offering over its quantity, and He rewards those who give with a sincere and generous heart.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) To go up; to ascend.

2. (n.) To rise or reach by an accumulation of particular sums or quantities; to come (to) in the aggregate or whole; -- with to or unto.

3. (n.) To rise, reach, or extend in effect, substance, or influence; to be equivalent; to come practically (to); as, the testimony amounts to very little.

4. (v. t.) To signify; to amount to.

5. (n.) The sum total of two or more sums or quantities; the aggregate; the whole quantity; a totality; as, the amount of 7 and 9 is 16; the amount of a bill; the amount of this year's revenue.

6. (n.) The effect, substance, value, significance, or result; the sum; as, the amount of the testimony is this.

Greek

1646. elachistos -- least (in size, amount, dignity, etc.)
... least (in size, amount, dignity, etc.). Part of Speech: Adjective Transliteration:
elachistos Phonetic Spelling: (el-akh'-is-tos) Short Definition: least ...
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2425. hikanos -- sufficient, fit
... From hiko (hikano or hikneomai, akin to heko) (to arrive); competent (as if coming
in season), ie Ample (in amount) or fit (in character) -- able, + content ...
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1510. eimi -- I exist, I am
... and defective verb Definition I exist, I am NASB Word Usage accompanied* (1), accompany*
(2), am (138), amount (1), amounts (1), appear* (1), asserted* (1 ...
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2470. isos -- equal
... agree, as much, equal, like. Probably from eido (through the idea of seeming); similar
(in amount and kind) -- + agree, as much, equal, like. see GREEK eido. ...
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4214. posos -- how much? how great?
... how great. From an absolute pos (who, what) and hos; interrogative pronoun (of amount)
how much (large, long or (plural) many) -- how great (long, many), what. ...
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4715. stater -- a stater (a coin)
... 4715 -- a silver coin worth two and equivalent to (a , four drachmae) --
the exact amount of the Temple-tax required for people. ...
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4298. prokopto -- to cut forward (a way), advance
... From pro and kopto; to drive forward (as if by beating), ie (figuratively and
intransitively) to advance (in amount, to grow; in time, to be well along ...
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2774. kephalaion -- of the head, the main point
... sum. Neuter of a derivative of kephale; a principal thing, ie Main point;
specially, an amount (of money) -- sum. see GREEK kephale. ...
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5118. tosoutos -- so great, so much, pl. so many
... From tosos (so much; apparently from ho and hos) and houtos (including its variations);
so vast as this, ie Such (in quantity, amount, number of space) -- as ...
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3650. holos -- whole, complete
... A primary word; "whole" or "all", ie Complete (in extent, amount, time or degree),
especially (neuter) as noun or adverb -- all, altogether, every whit ...
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Strong's Hebrew

6575. parashah -- exact statement
... 6574, 6575. parashah. 6576 . exact statement. Transliteration: parashah
Phonetic Spelling: (paw-raw-shaw') Short Definition: amount. ...
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4373. miksah -- a computation
... 4372, 4373. miksah. 4374 . a computation. Transliteration: miksah Phonetic
Spelling: (mik-saw') Short Definition: amount. Word Origin fem. ...
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7230. rob -- multitude, abundance, greatness
... great quantities (1), great quantity (1), greatly (1), greatness (12), grossness
(1), harsh (1), immense (1), increased (1), large (1), large amount (1), large ...
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4932. mishneh -- a double, copy, second
... From shanah; properly, a repetition, ie A duplicate (copy of a document), or a double
(in amount); by implication, a second (in order, rank, age, quality or ...
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4488. maneh -- maneh, mina (a measure of weight or money)
... maneh, pound. From manah; properly, a fixed weight or measured amount, ie (techn.)
A maneh or mina -- maneh, pound. see HEBREW manah. 4487, 4488. maneh. 4489 ...
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3117. yom -- day
... root Definition day NASB Word Usage afternoon* (1), age (8), age* (1), all (1),
always* (14), amount* (2), battle (1), birthday* (1), Chronicles* (38 ...
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1697. dabar -- speech, word
... Definition speech, word NASB Word Usage account (2), account* (2), act (1), acts
(52), advice (3), affair (3), affairs (3), agreement (1), amount* (2), annals ...
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2706. choq -- something prescribed or owed, a statute
... 2), limits (1), measure (1), necessary food (1), ordinance (4), portion (3), portions
(1), prescribed portion (1), rations (1), required amount (1), resolves (1 ...
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Library

Whether it Suffices to Restore the Exact Amount Taken?
... OF RESTITUTION (EIGHT ARTICLES) Whether it suffices to restore the exact
amount taken? Objection 1: It would seem that it is not ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether it suffices to restore.htm

Still, in his Examination of the Amount of Justice and Wisdom ...
... IV."Apologetic Works. Chapter XXVI. Still, in his examination of the amount
of justice and wisdom discoverable in this Dispensation? ...
/.../gregory/gregory of nyssa dogmatic treatises etc/chapter xxvi still in his.htm

The Transmitted virtue of the Manich??ans; the virtues of Matter ...
... Chapter XI."The Transmitted Virtue of the Manich??ans; The Virtues of
Matter Mixed with Equal or Less Amount of Evil. To other ...
/.../alexander/of the manichaeans/chapter xi the transmitted virtue of.htm

Second Great Group of Parables.
... quickly and write fifty. [The amount remitted here"450 gallons of olive
oil"represented a large sum of money. Such a reduction ...
/.../mcgarvey/the four-fold gospel/xcii second great group of 5.htm

The Fragrance of the Life in the Gift.
... And let those of us who have not been intrusted either with the large amount of
money, or with the large power to earn, remember that the amount involved does ...
/.../gordon/quiet talks on service/the fragrance of the life.htm

The Entrusted Talents.
... he might either confide to his servants generally the management of his estate,
and give them wages according to time, or give each a certain amount of capital ...
/.../arnot/the parables of our lord/xiv the entrusted talents.htm

Christ the Great Physician.
... Sin is the disease of which Christ, as a physician, is the healer. The disease is
deadly. The smallest amount is fatal. The Great Physician alone can heal it. ...
/.../viii christ the great physician.htm

The Trading Servants
... considerably greater. A small amount, and an equal amount to every
servant"these are the two salient points of this parable. They ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture e/the trading servants.htm

Forgiven and Unforgiving
... against God. Numismatists and arithmeticians may jangle about the precise
amount represented by the thousand talents. It differs ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture b/forgiven and unforgiving.htm

The Prudent Steward.
... He held their acknowledgments for goods received, or their signatures for the
amount of rent which they had agreed to pay for their lands. ...
/.../arnot/the parables of our lord/xxv the prudent steward.htm

Thesaurus

Amount (66 Occurrences)
... 4. (vt) To signify; to amount to. 5. (n.) The sum total of two or more
sums or quantities; the aggregate; the whole quantity; a ...
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Rain (118 Occurrences)
... A small difference in the amount of these seasonal rains makes a large difference
in the possibility of growing various crops without irrigation. ...
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Quantity (18 Occurrences)
... multiplication and division; greatness; and more concretely, that which answers
the question How much?; measure in regard to bulk or amount; determinate or ...
/q/quantity.htm - 13k

Rainfall
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (n.) A fall or descent of rain; the water, or amount of
water, that falls in rain; as, the average annual rainfall of a region. Int. ...
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Sum (34 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) The aggregate of two or more numbers, magnitudes, quantities, or particulars;
the amount or whole of any number of individuals or particulars added ...
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Inches (1 Occurrence)
... Year Amount 1861 27.30" 1862 21.86" 1863 26.54" 1864 15.51" 1865 18.19" 1866 18.55"
1867 29.42" 1868 29.10" 1869 18.61" 1870 13.19" 1871 23.17" 1872 22.26 ...
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Fourfold (2 Occurrences)
... I restore fourfold." From this statement of Zaccheus we are to understand that fourfold
the amount of that which was stolen was the restoration the law ...
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More (6686 Occurrences)
... 2. (n.) A root. 3. (superl.) Greater; superior; increased. 4. (superl.) Greater
in quality, amount, degree, quality, and the like; with the singular. ...
/m/more.htm - 7k

Value (138 Occurrences)
... 2. (n.) Worth estimated by any standard of purchasing power, especially by the market
price, or the amount of money agreed upon as an equivalent to the utility ...
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Tax (43 Occurrences)
... of government. 10. (n.) To assess, fix, or determine judicially, the amount
of; as, to tax the cost of an action in court. 11. (n ...
/t/tax.htm - 47k

Resources

What does 2 Peter 3:8 mean when it says a thousand years are a day? | GotQuestions.org

Should a Christian tithe off miscellaneous income, e.g. inheritance, gifts, winnings, tax refunds, legal settlements, etc.? | GotQuestions.org

Why was the redemption price for men and women different in Leviticus 27:3 8? | GotQuestions.org

Amount: Dictionary and Thesaurus | Clyx.com

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Amount (66 Occurrences)

Matthew 13:33
He spoke another parable to them. "The Kingdom of Heaven is like yeast, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, until it was all leavened."
(See NIV)

Matthew 28:12
When they were assembled with the elders, and had taken counsel, they gave a large amount of silver to the soldiers,
(WEB)

Mark 12:42
A poor widow came, and she cast in two small brass coins, which equal a quadrans coin.
(See NAS)

Luke 3:13
"Do not exact more than the legal amount," he replied.
(WEY BBE)

Luke 6:34
And if you lend to those from whom you hope to receive, what credit is it to you? Even bad men lend to their fellows so as to receive back an equal amount.
(WEY NAS)

Luke 12:19
And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have a great amount of goods in store, enough for a number of years; be at rest, take food and wine and be happy.
(BBE)

Luke 12:48
But he who had not been told it and yet did what deserved the scourge, will receive but few lashes. To whomsoever much has been given, from him much will be required; and to whom much has been entrusted, of him a larger amount will be demanded.
(WEY)

Luke 13:21
It is like yeast, which a woman took and hid in three measures of flour, until it was all leavened."
(See NIV)

Luke 16:5
And sending for every one who was in debt to his lord he said to the first, What is the amount of your debt to my lord?
(BBE)

Luke 16:7
Then he said to another, What is the amount of your debt? And he said, A hundred measures of grain. And he said to him, Take your account and put down eighty.
(BBE)

Luke 19:8
Zacchaeus however stood up, and addressing the Lord said, "Here and now, Master, I give half my property to the poor, and if I have unjustly exacted money from any man, I pledge myself to repay to him four times the amount."
(WEY NIV)

Acts 5:8
And Peter said to her, Give me an answer: was this amount of money the price of the land? And she said, Yes, it was.
(BBE)

Romans 12:3
For through the authority graciously given to me I warn every individual among you not to value himself unduly, but to cultivate sobriety of judgement in accordance with the amount of faith which God has allotted to each one.
(WEY)

Romans 15:26
For it has been the good pleasure of those of Macedonia and Achaia to send a certain amount of money for the poor among the saints at Jerusalem.
(BBE)

Romans 15:29
and I know that when I come to you it will be with a vast amount of blessing from Christ.
(WEY)

2 Corinthians 9:5
So it seemed to me wise for the brothers to go before, and see that the amount which you had undertaken to give was ready, so that it might be a cause for praise, and not as if we were making profit out of you.
(BBE)

Philemon 1:18
And if he was ever dishonest or is in your debt, debit me with the amount.
(WEY)

Genesis 34:12
Ask me a great amount for a dowry, and I will give whatever you ask of me, but give me the young lady as a wife."
(WEB)

Genesis 43:12
and take double money in your hand, and take back the money that was returned in the mouth of your sacks. Perhaps it was an oversight.
(See NIV)

Genesis 43:15
The men took that present, and they took double money in their hand, and Benjamin; and got up, went down to Egypt, and stood before Joseph.
(See NIV)

Exodus 5:13
The taskmasters were urgent saying, "Fulfill your work quota daily, as when there was straw!"
(See NAS)

Exodus 5:14
The officers of the children of Israel, whom Pharaoh's taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and demanded, "Why haven't you fulfilled your quota both yesterday and today, in making brick as before?"
(See NAS)

Exodus 5:19
The officers of the children of Israel saw that they were in trouble, when it was said, "You shall not diminish anything from your daily quota of bricks!"
(See NAS)

Exodus 12:4
and if the household is too little for a lamb, then he and his neighbor next to his house shall take one according to the number of the souls; according to what everyone can eat you shall make your count for the lamb.
(See NIV)

Exodus 21:22
If men, while fighting, do damage to a woman with child, causing the loss of the child, but no other evil comes to her, the man will have to make payment up to the amount fixed by her husband, in agreement with the decision of the judges.
(BBE)

Exodus 38:21
This is the amount of material used for the tabernacle, even the Tabernacle of the Testimony, as they were counted, according to the commandment of Moses, for the service of the Levites, by the hand of Ithamar, the son of Aaron the priest.
(WEB NIV)

Exodus 38:24
All the gold that was used for the work in all the work of the sanctuary, even the gold of the offering, was twenty-nine talents, and seven hundred thirty shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary.
(See NIV)

Leviticus 25:8
"'You shall count off seven Sabbaths of years, seven times seven years; and there shall be to you the days of seven Sabbaths of years, even forty-nine years.
(See NIV)

Leviticus 25:52
If there remain but a few years to the year of jubilee, then he shall reckon with him; according to his years of service he shall give back the price of his redemption.
(See NAS)

Leviticus 27:8
But if he is poorer than your valuation, then he shall be set before the priest, and the priest shall value him; according to the ability of him who vowed shall the priest value him.
(See NIV)

Leviticus 27:16
"'If a man dedicates to Yahweh part of the field of his possession, then your valuation shall be according to the seed for it: the sowing of a homer of barley shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver.
(See NIV)

Leviticus 27:18
But if he gives his field after the year of Jubilee, the amount of the money will be worked out by the priest in relation to the number of years till the coming year of Jubilee, and the necessary amount will be taken off your value.
(BBE)

Leviticus 27:23
Then the value fixed by you up to the year of Jubilee will be worked out for him by the priest, and in that day he will give the amount of your value as holy to the Lord.
(BBE DBY YLT NAS RSV)

Numbers 11:32
And all that day and all night and the day after, the people were taking up the birds; the smallest amount which anyone got was ten homers: and they put them out all round the tents.
(BBE)

1 Samuel 30:16
And when he had taken him down, they saw them all, seated about on all sides, feasting and drinking among all the mass of goods which they had taken from the land of the Philistines and the land of Judah.
(See NIV)

2 Samuel 8:8
From Betah and from Berothai, cities of Hadadezer, king David took exceeding much brass.
(See NAS)

2 Samuel 12:30
He took the crown of their king from off his head; and its weight was a talent of gold, and in it were precious stones; and it was set on David's head. He brought forth the spoil of the city, exceeding much.
(See NAS RSV)

1 Kings 4:22
And the amount of Solomon's food for one day was thirty measures of crushed grain and sixty measures of meal;
(BBE)

1 Kings 10:11
The navy also of Hiram, that brought gold from Ophir, brought in from Ophir great plenty of almug trees and precious stones.
(See RSV)

2 Kings 12:4
And Jehoash said to the priests, All the money of the holy things, which comes into the house of the Lord, (the amount fixed for every man's payment,) and all the money given by any man freely from the impulse of his heart,
(BBE)

2 Kings 12:10
And when they saw that there was much money in the chest, the king's scribe and the high priest came and put it in bags, noting the amount of all the money there was in the house of the Lord.
(BBE NIV)

2 Kings 22:4
"Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may sum the money which is brought into the house of Yahweh, which the keepers of the threshold have gathered of the people.
(See RSV)

2 Kings 25:30
And for his food, the king gave him a regular amount every day for the rest of his life.
(BBE)

1 Chronicles 18:8
From Tibhath and from Cun, cities of Hadadezer, David took very much brass, with which Solomon made the bronze sea, and the pillars, and the vessels of brass.
(See NAS)

1 Chronicles 20:2
David took the crown of their king from off his head, and found it to weigh a talent of gold, and there were precious stones in it; and it was set on David's head: and he brought forth the spoil of the city, exceeding much.
(See NAS RSV)

1 Chronicles 22:3
David prepared iron in abundance for the nails for the doors of the gates, and for the couplings; and brass in abundance without weight;
(See NIV)

1 Chronicles 22:4
And cedar-trees without number, for the Zidonians and the men of Tyre came with a great amount of cedar-trees for David.
(BBE)

2 Chronicles 9:1
When the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came to prove Solomon with hard questions at Jerusalem, with a very great train, and camels that bore spices, and gold in abundance, and precious stones: and when she was come to Solomon, she talked with him of all that was in her heart.
(See NAS)

2 Chronicles 9:9
She gave the king one hundred and twenty talents of gold, and spices in great abundance, and precious stones: neither was there any such spice as the queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon.
(See NAS)

2 Chronicles 14:13
And Asa and the people who were with him went after them as far as Gerar; and so great was the destruction among the Ethiopians that they were not able to get their army together again, for they were broken before the Lord and before his army; and they took away a great amount of their goods.
(BBE NIV)

2 Chronicles 20:25
And when Jehoshaphat and his people came to take the spoil of them, they found among them in abundance both riches and dead bodies, and precious jewels, which they stripped off for themselves, more than they could carry away; and they were three days in taking the spoil, it was so much.
(See NIV)

2 Chronicles 24:11
So when the chest was taken to the king's servants by the Levites, and they saw that there was much money in it, the king's scribe and the chief priest's servant took the money out, and put the chest back in its place. They did this day by day, and got together a great amount of money.
(BBE NIV)

2 Chronicles 27:5
He went to war with the king of the children of Ammon and overcame them. That year, the children of Ammon gave him a hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand measures of grain and ten thousand measures of barley. And the children of Ammon gave him the same amount the second year and the third.
(BBE NAS RSV NIV)

2 Chronicles 29:35
And there was a great amount of burned offerings, with the fat of the peace-offerings and the drink offerings for every burned offering. So the work of the Lord's house was put in order.
(BBE)

2 Chronicles 31:5
And when the order was made public, straight away the children of Israel gave, in great amounts, the first-fruits of their grain and wine and oil and honey, and of the produce of their fields; and they took in a tenth part of everything, a great store.
(Root in BBE NIV)

2 Chronicles 31:10
Azariah the chief priest, of the house of Zadok, answered him and said, Since the people began to bring the offerings into the house of Yahweh, we have eaten and had enough, and have left plenty: for Yahweh has blessed his people; and that which is left is this great store.
(See NIV)

Nehemiah 11:23
For there was an order from the king about them and a regular amount for the music-makers, for their needs day by day.
(BBE)

Esther 4:7
And Mordecai gave him an account of what had taken place, and of the amount of money which Haman had said he would put into the king's store for the destruction of the Jews.
(BBE NAS NIV)

Isaiah 5:10
For ten fields of vines will only give one measure of wine, and a great amount of seed will only give a small measure of grain.
(BBE)

Isaiah 41:29
Truly they are all nothing, their works are nothing and of no value: their metal images are of no more use than wind.
(See NIV)

Jeremiah 52:34
And for his food, the king gave him a regular amount every day till the day of his death, for the rest of his life.
(BBE)

Ezekiel 16:27
Now, then, my hand is stretched out against you, cutting down your fixed amount, and I have given you up to the desire of your haters, the daughters of the Philistines who are shamed by your loose ways.
(BBE)

Ezekiel 27:12
Tarshish did business with you because of the great amount of your wealth; they gave silver, iron, tin, and lead for your goods.
(BBE)

Ezekiel 27:18
Damascus did business with you because of the great amount of your wealth, with wine of Helbon and white wool.
(BBE)

Ezekiel 41:7
The side-rooms became wider as they went higher up the house, by the amount of the space let into the wall up round about the house, because of the inlets in the house; and one went up from the lowest floor by steps to the middle, and from the middle to the upper floor.
(BBE)

Daniel 1:5
And a regular amount of food and wine every day from the king's table was ordered for them by the king; and they were to be cared for for three years so that at the end of that time they might take their places before the king.
(BBE NIV)

Subtopics

Amount

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