An encyclopaedia of freemasonry and its kindred sciences : comprising the whole range of arts, sciences and literature as connected with the institution (1887)
Mackey, Albert Gallatin, 1807-1881, McClenachan, Charles T. (Charles Thompson) · Philadelphia : L.H. Everts · leaf 727
fore andlong after, until the Babylonish exile, theHebrews had no regularly stamped money,but generally used in trafiic a currencywhich consisted of uncoined shekels, whichthey weighed out to one another. Theearliest specimens of the coined shekelwhich we know are of the coinage of Simon Maccabeus,… … having three buds, with the inscription, lerushalem Kadoshah, or Jerusalem theHoly, in a similar character. Shekinah. Heb., T\l2^, derivedfrom SHAKAN, to dwell. A term appliedby the Jews, especially in the Targums, tothe divine glory which dwelt in the taber-nacle and the Temple, and which…
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