Senine is a unit of gold used in the reckoning of judges’ wages and other values. A judge received “a senine of gold for a day,” while “a senum of silver” was equal to a senine of gold under the law (Alma 11:3). A senum of silver was also equal to a senine of gold “for a measure of barley, and also for a measure of every kind of grain” (Alma 11:7).
The stated gold reckoning lists “a senine of gold, a seon of gold, a shum of gold, and a limnah of gold” (Alma 11:5). The amount of a seon of gold was “twice the value of a senine” (Alma 11:8). Korihor said that he had never received “so much as even one senine for my labor” (Alma 30:33).
Jesus said that a person would not come out until he had paid “the uttermost senine.” He asked, “while ye are in prison can ye pay even one senine” (3 Nephi 12:26).