Luke 15:8
Or what woman who has ten silver coins and loses one of them does not light a lamp, sweep her house, and search carefully until she finds it?
Note Greek ten drachmas, each worth about a day’s wages
Either what woman having ten pieces of silver, if she lose one piece, doth not light a candle, and sweep the house, and seek diligently till she find it?
“Or what woman, if she had ten drachma coins, if she lost one drachma coin, wouldn’t light a lamp, sweep the house, and seek diligently until she found it?
Note A drachma coin was worth about a days wages for an agricultural laborer.
Or what woman having ten pieces of silver, if she lose one piece, doth not light a lamp, and sweep the house, and seek diligently until she find it?
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- and seek
- Luke 19:10; Ezekiel 34:12; John 10:16; John 11:52; Ephesians 2:17