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H8255

שקל

שקל
shaqal

Masculine noun · From שקל (H8254)

From H8254; probably a weight; used as a commercial standard:—shekel.

Outline

  1. shekel
    1. the chief unit of weight or measure
      1. gold - 1/10000 of a talent and equal to 220 grains
      2. silver - 1/3000 of a talent and equal to 132 grains
      3. copper - 1/1500 of a talent and equal to 528 grains

Usages (2/2)

Jeremiah 32:9

And I bought the field of Hanameel my uncle’s son, that was in Anathoth, and weighed him the money, even seventeen shekels of silver.

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Ezekiel 4:10

And thy meat which thou shalt eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time shalt thou eat it.

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Ezekiel 45:12

And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs: twenty shekels, five and twenty shekels, fifteen shekels, shall be your maneh.

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Amos 8:5

Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit?

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