The as (plural assēs), occasionally assarius (plural assarii, rendered into Greek as ἀσσάριον,
assarion) was a bronze, and later copper, coin used during the Roman Republic and Roman Empire.
Encyclopedias - International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Assarion
ASSARION
as-a'-ri-on. See
FARTHING.
FARTHING
far'-thing:
The rendering of two words in the Greek of the New Testament, assarion, and kodrantes, Latin quadrans. The assarion was the tenth part of the denarius, and hence in value about one penny or two centuries The quadrans was the fourth part of the Roman as, and worth only about three mills, or less than the English farthing, and is the only term rendered farthing by the American Standard Revised Version. It occurs in
Matthew 5:26 and
Mark 12:42, while assarion, which occurs in
Matthew 10:29 and
Luke 12:6, is rendered "penny" by the American Standard Revised Version.
Idiosyncratic - NEW WORD
