Prutah

Now a meah, in the days of Moses our master, was called a gerah; it contains two pondions; a pondion, two assars; and a prutah is the eighth part of an assar. ❋ 1602-1675 (1979)

In some quarters of Poland the Jews have small thin bits of brass, with the Hebrew word prutah impressed upon them, for the uses in charity on the part of those among them that cannot afford to give a kreutzer to a poor man. ❋ Various (N/A)

"A prutah is the eighth part of an Italian assarius. ❋ 1602-1675 (1979)

Hence are those numberless passages in the Talmudic Pandects relating to the prutah: "He that steals less than a prutah is not bound to pay five-fold." ❋ 1602-1675 (1979)

Luke hath, the last mite, chapter 12: 59; that is, the last prutah, which was the eighth part of the Italian assarius. ❋ 1602-1675 (1979)

The prutah, as it was the least piece of money among the Jews, so it seems to have been a coin merely Jewish, not Roman. ❋ 1602-1675 (1979)

Maimonides, That which is not worth a prutah, is not to be reckoned among riches. ❋ 1602-1675 (1979)

"No land is bought for a price less than a prutah," that is, given as an earnest. ❋ 1602-1675 (1979)

On the next page of the same tract it is said, "For one prutah given as alms to a poor man one is made partaker of the beatific vision." ❋ Various (N/A)

Lakish said, "A lawsuit about a prutah (the smallest coin there is) should be esteemed of as much account as a suit of a hundred manahs." ❋ Various (N/A)

Scholars think that the common prutah was probably the "mite" coin that Jesus referred to in March 12: 42, when he pointed out the poor widow whod donated ❋ Unknown (2010)

Another prutah was issued by Herod the Great, Roman client king of Israel at the time of Jesus 'birth. ❋ Unknown (2010)

One bronze prutah bears the name (in Greek) of the Roman emperor Tiberius and an ancient date that translates into 30 A.D. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Also is the show are a prutah and a lepton, two small-change coins that circulated in Palestine for nearly 500 years. ❋ Unknown (2010)

And the weight of a prutah is half a barleycorn. " ❋ 1602-1675 (1979)

Whoever gives a prutah to a poor man has six blessings bestowed upon him, and he that speaks a kind word to him realizes eleven blessings in himself (see Isa. lviii. ❋ Various (N/A)