Strong's Concordance
kodrantés: quadrans, one-fourth of an as (a Roman monetary unit)
Original Word: κοδράντης, ου, ὁPart of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Transliteration: kodrantés
Phonetic Spelling: (kod-ran'-tace)
Short Definition: the smallest Roman copper coin
Definition: a quadrans, the smallest Roman copper coin, a quarter of an as, the sixteenth part of a sesterius.
HELPS Word-studies
2835 kodrántēs – a Roman copper coin, worth of a denarius; "(Latin, = quadrans), 'a quadrans,' the smallest Roman copper coin, a quarter of an as, the sixteenth part of a sestertius" (Souter). The Latin quadrans was ¼ of an "as, the same as an assarion (787)," i.e. the same as a farthing, equal to two lepta (mites).
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 2835: κοδράντηςκοδράντης,
κοδραντου (
Buttmann, 17 (16)),
ὁ; a Latin word, quadrans (i. e. the fourth part of an as); in the N. T. a coin equal to one half the Attic chalcus or to two
λεπτά (see
λεπτόν):
Mark 12:42;
Matthew 5:26. The word is fully discussed by Fischer, De vitiis lexamples N. T., p. 447ff (
A. V. farthing; see
BB. DD. under the word.)