Strong's Concordance
Original word: קְשִׂיטָה
Transliteration: qesitah
Definition (short): money
Definition (full): (unit of value), perhaps piece
NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin: of uncertain derivation
Definition: (unit of value), perhaps piece
NASB Translation: piece of money (1), pieces of money (2).
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
From an unused root (probably meaning to weigh out); an ingot (as definitely estimated and stamped for a coin) -- piece of money (silver).
References
KJV:
And he bought a parcel of a field, where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem's father, for an hundred pieces of money.
NASB:
He bought the piece of land where he had pitched his tent from the hand of the sons of Hamor, Shechem's father, for one hundred pieces of money.
KJV:
And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, buried they in Shechem, in a parcel of ground which Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for an hundred pieces of silver: and it became the inheritance of the children of Joseph.
NASB:
Now they buried the bones of Joseph, which the sons of Israel brought up from Egypt, at Shechem, in the piece of ground which Jacob had bought from the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for one hundred pieces of money; and they became the inheritance of Joseph's sons.
KJV:
Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him in his house: and they bemoaned him, and comforted him over all the evil that the LORD had brought upon him: every man also gave him a piece of money, and every one an earring of gold.
NASB:
Then all his brothers and all his sisters and all who had known him before came to him, and they ate bread with him in his house; and they consoled him and comforted him for all the adversities that the LORD had brought on him. And each one gave him one piece of money, and each a ring of gold.