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Strong's G5007 τάλαντον (talanton)

Talanton means “talent” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's H5007 — neatsah (“blasphemy”) in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G5007
Language Greek
Linked Usages 64
Books 15

Strong's G5007 Quick Answer

Strong's G5007 τάλαντον (talanton) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. talanton (tal'-an-ton) n. 1. a balance (as supporting weights) 2. (by implication) a certain weight (and thence a coin or rather sum of money) or "talent" It has 64 linked Bible usages across 15 books. Visible English usage signals include talents and talent. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Meaning
talanton (tal'-an-ton) n. 1. a balance (as supporting weights) 2. (by implication) a certain weight (and thence a coin or rather sum of money) or "talent"
Usage
64 linked usages
Books
15 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Usage Words
talents and talent

Meaning and Definition

talanton (tal'-an-ton) n. 1. a balance (as supporting weights) 2. (by implication) a certain weight (and thence a coin or rather sum of money) or "talent" [neuter of a presumed derivative of the original form of tlao "to bear" (equivalent to G5342)] KJV: talent Root(s): G5342

Original Word
τάλαντον
Transliteration
talanton
Derivation
Root: φέρω R1: 5342
Morphology
noun

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G5007. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)

talent

Usage: τάλαντομ, -ον, τ [in LXX for כִּכָּר ;] __1. a balance (Hom.). __2. that which is weighed, a talent; __(a) a talent in weight (in Horn. always of gold); __(b) a sum of money, whether gold or silver, equivalent to a talent in weight (see DB, iii, 418 ff.): Mat.18:24 25:15 ff.† (AS)

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How Strong's G5007 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render talanton, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

talents Matthew 18:24 talent Matthew 25:24

How Strong's G5007 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and New Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Septuagint / Greek Old Testament with 36 linked usages.
  • This page lets readers compare New Testament usage with Septuagint / Greek Old Testament usage, which is a key THF advantage over narrower Strong's pages.
  • Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha rows are counted separately so readers can decide how those texts relate to the main word study.

In the Septuagint (LXX)

Strong's G5007 (τάλαντον) appears 72 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G5007 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's G5007 in the New Testament

8 indexed usages in New Testament.

Matthew 18:24 KJV

And when he had begun to reckon, one was brought unto him, which owed him ten thousand talents.

Matthew 25:15 KJV

And unto one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one; to every man according to his several ability; and straightway took his journey.

Matthew 25:16 KJV

Then he that had received the five talents went and traded with the same, and made them other five talents.

Strong's G5007 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

36 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Exodus 25:39 Septuagint / Brenton

All these articles shall be a talent of pure gold.

Exodus 39:1 Septuagint / Brenton

All the gold that was employed for the works according to all the fabrication of the holy things, was of the gold of the offerings, twenty-nine talents, and seven hundred and twenty shekels according to the holy shekel.

Exodus 39:2 Septuagint / Brenton

And the offering of silver from the men that were numbered of the congregation a hundred talents, and a thousand seven hundred and seventy-five shekels, one drachma apiece, even the half shekel, according to the holy shekel.

Strong's G5007 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

20 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

1 Esdras 1:34 Septuagint / Brenton

And the people took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and made him king instead of Josiah his father when he was twenty and three years old.

1 Esdras 3:21 Septuagint / Brenton

and it maketh every heart rich, so that a man remembereth neither king nor governor; and it maketh to speak all things by talents:

1 Esdras 4:51 Septuagint / Brenton

yea, that there should be yearly given twenty talents to the building of the temple, until the time that it were built;

Usage Excerpts

First 64 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G5007.

Exodus 25:39 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
All these articles shall be a talent of pure gold.
Exodus 39:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
All the gold that was employed for the works according to all the fabrication of the holy things, was of the gold of the offerings, twenty-nine talents, and seven hundred and twenty shekels according to the holy shekel.
Exodus 39:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the offering of silver from the men that were numbered of the congregation a hundred talents, and a thousand seven hundred and seventy-five shekels, one drachma apiece, even the half shekel, according to the holy shekel.
Exodus 39:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the hundred talents of silver went to the casting of the hundred chapiters of the tabernacle, and to the chapiters of the veil;
Exodus 39:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the thousand seven hundred and seventy-five shekels he formed into hooks for the pillars, and he gilded their chapiters and adorned them.
2 Kingdoms 12:30 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he took the crown of Molchom their king from off his head, and the weight of it was a talent of gold, with precious stones, and it was upon the head of David; and he carried forth very much spoil of the city.
3 Kingdoms 9:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Hiram sent to the king sixscore talents of gold.
3 Kingdoms 9:28 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they came to Ophir, and fetched from thence gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.
3 Kingdoms 10:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And she gave to Solomon a hundred and twenty talents of gold, and very many spices, and precious stones: there had not come any other spices so abundant as those which the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.
3 Kingdoms 10:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred and sixty-six talents of gold.
3 Kingdoms 16:24 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Omri bought the Mount Samaria of Shemer the lord of the mountain for two talents of silver; and he built upon the mountain, and they called the name of the mountain on which he built, after the name of Shemer the lord of the mount, Samaria.
3 Kingdoms 21:39 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it came to pass as the king passed by, that he cried aloud to the king, and said, Thy servant went out to war, and, behold, a man brought another man to me, and said to me, Keep this man; and if he should by any means escape, then thy life shall go for his life, or thou shalt pay a talent of silver.
4 Kingdoms 5:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the king of Syria said to Naaman, Go to, go, and I will send a letter to the king of Israel. And he went, and took in his hand ten talents of silver, and six thousand pieces of gold, and ten changes of raiment.
4 Kingdoms 5:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Gehazi said, All is well: my master has sent me, saying, Behold, now are there come to me two young men of the sons of the prophets from Mount Ephraim; give them, I pray thee, a talent of silver, and two changes of raiment.
4 Kingdoms 15:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
In his days went up Pul king of the Assyrians against the land: and Menahem gave to Pul a thousand talents of silver to aid him with his power.
4 Kingdoms 18:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Hezekiah king of Judah sent messengers to the king of the Assyrians to Lachish, saying, I have offended; depart from me: whatsoever thou shalt lay upon me, I will bear. And the king of Assyria laid upon Hezekiah king of Judah a tribute of three hundred talents of silver, and thirty talents of gold.
4 Kingdoms 23:33 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Pharaoh Neco removed him to Riblah in the land of Hamath, so that he should not reign in Jerusalem; and imposed a tribute on the land, a hundred talents of silver, and a hundred talents of gold.
1 Chronicles 19:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the children of Ammon saw that the people of David were ashamed, and Hanun and the children of Ammon sent a thousand talents of silver to hire for themselves chariots and horsemen out of Syria of Mesopotamia, and out of Syria Maacah, and from Zobah.
1 Chronicles 20:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And David took the crown of Molchom their king off his head, and the weight of it was found to be a talent of gold, and on it were precious stones; and it was placed on the head of David: and he brought out the spoils of the city which were very great.
1 Chronicles 22:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And, behold, I according to my poverty have prepared for the house of the Lord a hundred thousand talents of gold, and a million talents of silver, and brass and iron without measure; for it is abundant; and I have prepared timber and stones; and do thou add to these.
1 Chronicles 29:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Three thousand talents of gold of Ophir, and seven thousand talents of fine silver, for the overlaying of the walls of the sanctuary:
1 Chronicles 29:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they gave for the works of the house of the Lord five thousand talents of gold, and ten thousand gold pieces, and ten thousand talents of silver, and eighteen thousand talents of brass, and a hundred thousand talents of iron.
2 Chronicles 3:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he built the holy of holies, its length was according to the front of the other house, the breadth of the house was twenty cubits, and the length twenty cubits: and he gilded it with pure gold for cherubs, to the amount of six hundred talents.
2 Chronicles 8:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Hiram sent by the hand of his servants ships, and servants skilled in naval affairs; and they went with the servants of Solomon to Ophir, and brought thence four hundred and fifty talents of gold, and they came to King Solomon.
2 Chronicles 9:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And she gave the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold, and spices in very great abundance, and precious stones: and there were not anywhere else such spices as those which the queen of Sheba gave King Solomon.
2 Chronicles 9:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the weight of the gold that was brought to Solomon in one year was six hundred and sixty-six talents of gold,
2 Chronicles 25:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Also he hired of Israel a hundred thousand mighty men for a hundred talents of silver.
2 Chronicles 25:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Amaziah said to the man of God, But what shall I do for the hundred talents which I have given to the army of Israel? And the man of God said, The Lord can give thee much more than these.
2 Chronicles 27:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
He fought against the king of the children of Ammon, and prevailed against him: and the children of Ammon gave him even annually a hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand measures of wheat, and ten thousand of barley. These the king of the children of Ammon brought to him annually in the first and second and third years.
2 Chronicles 36:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the king of Egypt put him down at Jerusalem, and condemned the land in an hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.
Ezra 7:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Unto an hundred talents of silver, and to an hundred measures of wheat, and to an hundred baths of wine, and to an hundred baths of oil, and salt without prescribing how much.
Ezra 8:26 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
I even weighed unto their hand six hundred and fifty talents of silver, and silver vessels an hundred talents, and of gold an hundred talents;
Esther 1:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they gave them drink in vessels of gold, (the vessels being diverse one from another,) and royal wine in abundance, according to the state of the king.
Esther 3:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
If it seem good to the king, let him make a decree to destroy them: and I will remit into the king’s treasury ten thousand talents of silver.
Esther 4:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Mordecai showed him what was done, and the promise which Haman had made the king of ten thousand talents to be paid into the treasury, that he might destroy the Jews.
Zechariah 5:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And behold a talent of lead lifted up: and behold a woman sat in the midst of the measure.
Matthew 18:24 New Testament, KJV
And when he had begun to reckon, one was brought unto him, which owed him ten thousand talents.
Matthew 25:15 New Testament, KJV
And unto one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one; to every man according to his several ability; and straightway took his journey.
Matthew 25:16 New Testament, KJV
Then he that had received the five talents went and traded with the same, and made them other five talents.
Matthew 25:20 New Testament, KJV
And so he that had received five talents came and brought other five talents, saying, Lord, thou deliveredst unto me five talents: behold, I have gained beside them five talents more.
Matthew 25:22 New Testament, KJV
He also that had received two talents came and said, Lord, thou deliveredst unto me two talents: behold, I have gained two other talents beside them.
Matthew 25:24 New Testament, KJV
Then he which had received the one talent came and said, Lord, I knew thee that thou art an hard man, reaping where thou hast not sown, and gathering where thou hast not strawed:
Matthew 25:25 New Testament, KJV
And I was afraid, and went and hid thy talent in the earth: lo, there thou hast that is thine.
Matthew 25:28 New Testament, KJV
Take therefore the talent from him, and give it unto him which hath ten talents.
1 Esdras 1:34 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And the people took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and made him king instead of Josiah his father when he was twenty and three years old.
1 Esdras 3:21 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
and it maketh every heart rich, so that a man remembereth neither king nor governor; and it maketh to speak all things by talents:
1 Esdras 4:51 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
yea, that there should be yearly given twenty talents to the building of the temple, until the time that it were built;
1 Esdras 4:52 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
and other ten talents yearly, to maintain the burnt offerings upon the altar every day, as they had a commandment to offer seventeen:
1 Esdras 8:19 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And I King Artaxerxes have also commanded the keepers of the treasures in Syria and Phoenicia, that whatsoever Ezra the priest and the reader of the law of the most high God shall send for, they should give it him with speed,
1 Esdras 8:56 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And when I had weighed it, I delivered unto them six hundred and sixty talents of silver, and silver vessels of a hundred talents, and a hundred talents of gold,
Tobit 1:14 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And I went into Media, and left in trust with Gabael, the brother of Gabri, at Rages a city of Media, ten talents of silver.
Tobit 4:20 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And now I signify this to thee, that I committed ten talents to Gabael the son of Gabri at Rages in Media.
1 Maccabees 11:28 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Then Jonathan desired the king, that he would make Judea free from tribute, as also the three governments, with the country of Samaria; and he promised him three hundred talents.
1 Maccabees 13:16 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Wherefore now send a hundred talents of silver, and two of his sons for hostages, that when he is at liberty he may not revolt from us, and we will let him go.
1 Maccabees 13:19 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
So he sent them the children and the hundred talents: howbeit Trypho dissembled, neither would he let Jonathan go.
1 Maccabees 15:31 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
or else give me for them five hundred talents of silver; and for the harm that ye have done, and the tributes of the cities, other five hundred talents: if not, we will come and fight against you.
1 Maccabees 15:35 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And whereas thou demandest Joppa and Gazara, albeit they did great harm unto the people in our country, yet will we give a hundred talents for them. Hereunto Athenobius answered him not a word;
2 Maccabees 3:11 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
and that some of it belonged to Hyrcanus son of Tobias, a man of great dignity, and not as that wicked Simon had misinformed: the sum whereof in all was four hundred talents of silver, and two hundred of gold:
2 Maccabees 4:8 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
promising unto the king by intercession three hundred and threescore talents of silver, and of another revenue eighty talents:
2 Maccabees 4:24 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
But he being brought to the presence of the king, when he had magnified him for the glorious appearance of his power, got the priesthood to himself, offering more than Jason by three hundred talents of silver.
2 Maccabees 5:21 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
So when Antiochus had carried out of the temple a thousand and eight hundred talents, he departed in all haste unto Antioch, weening in his pride to make the land navigable, and the sea passable by foot: such was the haughtiness of his mind.
2 Maccabees 8:10 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
So Nicanor undertook to make so much money of the captive Jews, as should defray the tribute of two thousand talents, which the king was to pay to the Romans.
2 Maccabees 8:11 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Wherefore immediately he sent to the cities upon the sea coast, proclaiming a sale of the captive Jews, and promising that they should have fourscore and ten bodies for one talent, not expecting the vengeance that was to follow upon him from the Almighty God.
4 Maccabees 4:17 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
who had made a covenant, if he would give him this authority, to pay yearly three thousand six hundred and sixty talents.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G5007, grouped by book.

Exodus 5 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
2 Kingdoms 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
3 Kingdoms 6 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
4 Kingdoms 5 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
1 Chronicles 5 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
2 Chronicles 8 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ezra 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Esther 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Zechariah 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Matthew 8 usages, New Testament
1 Esdras 6 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Tobit 2 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
1 Maccabees 5 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
2 Maccabees 6 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
4 Maccabees 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha

Strong's G5007 FAQ

What does talanton (τάλαντον) mean?

Talanton (Strong's G5007) is a Greek word most simply glossed "talent". talanton (tal'-an-ton) n. 1. a balance (as supporting weights) 2. (by implication) a certain weight (and thence a coin or rather sum of money) or "talent"

How many times is talanton (τάλαντον) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 64 linked usages for Strong's G5007 across 15 books.

Where can I study talanton (τάλαντον) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G5007 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

What English words translate talanton (τάλαντον)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as talents and talent. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.

Does Strong's G5007 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 36 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 20 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G5007, with linked reader references where each row is available.