What Does “Talent” Mean in the Bible?
Measure
A huge amount of money: the pay for many years of work.
A detail
- Today: a “talent” is a gift or skill, and the word comes from the parable of the talents.
Where it appears in the Bible
Matthew 25:15
What the Bible says
Matthew 25:15
And to one he gave five talents, and to another two, and to another one, to every one according to his proper ability: and immediately he took his journey.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), public domain.
Source: NAB note on Matthew 18:24; RAE, “talento”