Strong's #8255: sheqel (pronounced sheh'-kel)
from 8254; probably a weight; used as a commercial standard:--shekel.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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sheqel
1) shekel
1a) the chief unit of weight or measure
1a2) silver - 1/3000 of a talent and equal to 132 grains
1a3) copper - 1/1500 of a talent and equal to 528 grains
Part of Speech: noun masculine
Relation: from H8254
Usage:
This word is used 88 times:
Numbers 7:61: "silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full"
Numbers 7:61: "bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour"
Numbers 7:67: "silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full"
Numbers 7:67: "bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour"
Numbers 7:73: "silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full"
Numbers 7:73: "bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour"
Numbers 7:79: "silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full"
Numbers 7:79: "bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour"
Numbers 7:85: "weighed two thousand and four hundred shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary:"
Numbers 7:86: "were twelve, full of incense, weighing ten shekels apiece, after the shekel of the sanctuary:"
Numbers 18:16: "shalt thou redeem, according to thine estimation, for the money of five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, which"
Numbers 18:16: "according to thine estimation, for the money of five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, which is twenty"
Numbers 31:52: "sixteen thousand seven hundred and fifty shekels."
Joshua 7:21: "Babylonish garment, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold"
Joshua 7:21: "wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them; and, behold,"
1 Samuel 9:8: "I have here at hand the fourth part of a shekel of silver: that will I give to the man of God,"
1 Samuel 17:5: "of the coat was five thousand shekels of brass."
1 Samuel 17:7: "head weighed six hundred shekels of iron: and one bearing a shield went"
2 Samuel 14:26: "him, therefore he polled it:) he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels after the king's"
2 Samuel 24:24: "bought the threshingfloor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver."
2 Kings 7:1: "about this time shall a measure of fine flour be sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the gate"
2 Kings 7:1: "be sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria."
2 Kings 7:16: "So a measure of fine flour was sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, according to the word"
2 Kings 7:16: "sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, according to the word of the LORD."
2 Kings 7:18: "saying, Two measures of barley for a shekel, and a measure of fine flour for a shekel, shall be"
2 Kings 7:18: "for a shekel, and a measure of fine flour for a shekel, shall be tomorrow about this time in the gate"
2 Kings 15:20: "of each man fifty shekels of silver, to give to the king of Assyria."
1 Chronicles 21:25: "for the place six hundred shekels of gold by weight."
2 Chronicles 3:9: "And the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid the upper chambers with gold."
Nehemiah 5:15: "and wine, beside forty shekels of silver; yea, even their servants bore rule"
Nehemiah 10:32: "ourselves yearly with the third part of a shekel for the service of the house of our God;"
Jeremiah 32:9: "and weighed him the money, even seventeen shekels of silver."
Ezekiel 4:10: "thou shalt eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to"
Ezekiel 45:12: " And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs: twenty shekels, five and twenty shekels,"
Ezekiel 45:12: "shall be twenty gerahs: twenty shekels, five and twenty shekels, fifteen"
Ezekiel 45:12: "shekels, five and twenty shekels, fifteen shekels, shall be"
Ezekiel 45:12: "and twenty shekels, fifteen shekels, shall be your mina."
Amos 8:5: "that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances"
