Portion (Ezek. 45:12), rendered "pound" (1 Kings 10:17; Ezra 2:69; Nehemiah 7:71, 72), a weight variously estimated, probably about 2 1/2 or 3 lbs. A maneh of gold consisted of a hundred common shekels (q.v.). (Comp. 1 Kings 10:17, and 2 Chronicles 9:16).

Noah Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language

(n.) A Hebrew weight for gold or silver, being one hundred shekels of gold and sixty shekels of silver.