Quick Definition
a Roman pound
Strong's Definition
a pound in weight
Derivation: of Latin origin (libra);
KJV Usage: pound
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
λίτρα, λίτρας, ἡ, a pound, a weight of twelve ounces: Joh_12:3; Joh_19:39. (Polybius 22, 26, 19; Diodorus 14,116, 7; Plutarch, Tib. et G. Grac. 2, 3; Josephus, Antiquities 14, 7, 1; others.)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
λίτρα litra 2x
a pound, libra, equivalent to about twelve ounces (American), Joh_12:3 ; Joh_19:39
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
*† λίτρα , -ας , ἡ
( cf. Lat. libra),
1. a Sicilian coin = Rom. libra or as .
2. In weight, a pound: Joh_12:3 ; Joh_19:39 .†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
λίτρα [page 377]
For λίτρα which in the NT is confined to Joh_12:3 ; Joh_19:39 , cf. P Oxy XII. 1454 .5 (A.D. 116) σταθμοῦ λείτρας δύο , each weighing 2 pounds. In ib. 1513 .7 (iv/A.D.) it is curious to find beer measured by λίτραι ζυτοῦ λί (τραι ) ν̄ε̄ . See also ib. 1543 .6 ( c. A.D. 299), a receipt for chaff supplied to soldiers on the march ἐλίτρισεν (a new verb) . . . ἀχύρου . . [λί ]τρας τεσσαράκο [ντα . The name of a Sicilian silver coin, λίτρα is an attempt to reproduce a probable form * l̯ prā , which appears in Latin as libra (Boisacq, p. 585).
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
λίτρα λίτρα, ἡ, "a silver coin" of Sicily, Lat. libra:—as a weight, 12 ounces, "a pound", Anth. :—metaph., λίτρα^ν ἐτῶν ζήσας having lived "a pound" of years, i. e. 72 (for a pound of gold was coined into 72 pieces), id=Anth.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
λίτρα, -ας, ἡ
(cf. Lat. libra),
__1. a Sicilian coin = Rom. libra or as.
__2. In weight, a pound: Jhn.12:3 19:39.†
(AS)