money
argurion denotes monetary silver or funds given, valued, traded, or paid as a price.
The term denotes monetary silver or funds in contexts of payment, exchange, valuation, possession, and investment: amounts are offered or returned, used to purchase, entrusted for trading, and contrasted with other valuables.
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Monetary silver or funds · dominant
The accusative forms identify the funds involved in concrete exchanges: in Matthew 26:15 the APB renders the amount placed before Judas as “thirty pieces of money,” and in Matthew 28:12 it renders money given to soldiers. In Luke 19:23 the money is placed for collection with interest, while Acts 7:16 describes a purchase “for a sum of silver”; 1 Peter 1:18 places the dative singular alongside gold among perishable things.
In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB variously presents the term as “money,” “pieces of money,” “pieces of silver,” or “silver” across these verses. These renderings show the verse-level presentation rather than fixed English equivalents for each form.