- קל׳
- קוֹלְבּוֹן, קָלְ׳m. (κόλλυβος) rate of exchange, agio. Shek. I, 6 ואלו שחייבין בקו׳ Y. ed. (Mish. a. Bab. ed. בקל׳) the following persons are bound to pay agio (on their half-Shekel). Ib. 7 וכמה הוא ק׳וכ׳ and how much is the agio? A Mʿah silver. Y. ib. 46b קוֹלְבָּנוֹ תורה (Bab. ed. קל׳) the premium he has to pay is intimated in the Torah (Ex. 30:13, because he has to pay the silver value of half a Shekel). Ib. bot.; Tosef. ib. I, 8; a. e.Bekh.50a ק׳ לפרוטרוט (not קיל׳) the dipondium is agio (an addition) to the units (making fifty, as a round sum, instead of forty-eight, v. Tosaf. a. l.)Pl. קוֹלְבּוֹנִין, קוֹלְבּוֹנוֹת, קָלְבּוֹ׳. Tosef. Shek. l. c. חייב שני ק׳ is bound to pay double the agio. Ib. וק׳ אלו מה עושין להם and what is done with those agios? Shek. I, 6 ק׳, a. קוֹלְבָּנ׳ Y. ed. (Mish. ed. קלבו׳; Bab. ed. קולבנ׳).
Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature. Jastrow, Marcus. 1903.