Luke 21:2 - and He saw also a certain poor widow putting in two mites. [NKJV]
According to Strong's Lexicon, a "mite" was "a small brass coin, equivalent to the eighth part of an "as", worth about a 1/5 of a cent."
A piece of money worth half a farthing (Mark 12.42). A farthing is quarter of one penny.
Mark 12:42, Luke 21:2
It was not a button it was a "mite" (a small coin) - the "widows mite". Mark 12:41-44 Luke 21:1-4
A mite would roughly be a days earning in those days.
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No, a mite is not a consumer.
a mite is a decomposer
You might be a mite off-track with that idea. That mite might bite.
An example of a sentence with might and mite is "The mite might be trapped by the fluid".
They mite like you too!
I am willing to contribute to this noble cause according to my mite.