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- Dictionarywidow's mite
noun
- 1. a small monetary contribution from someone who is poor: "this is indeed the widow's mite—it's a whole shilling I'm giving you"
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- Lesson of the widow's mite
Biblical story
The lesson of the widow's mite or the widow's offering is presented in the Synoptic Gospels, in which Jesus is teaching at the Temple in Jerusalem. The Gospel of Mark specifies that two mites (Greek lepta ) are together worth a quadrans, the smallest Roman coin. A lepton was the smallest and least valuable coin in circulation in Judea, worth about six minutes of an average daily wage. Wikipedia
