shaqal (to weigh)

Meaning

To weigh, weigh out, pay out(Qal) · (Niphal)

How it's translated

and i weighed out 4
you will weigh out 2
and he weighed out 1
he will weigh out 1
and he weighed 1
weighing 1
it was weighed out 1
i will weigh out 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

Ezra 4
Isaiah 4
Job 3
2 Samuel 2
Esther 2
Jeremiah 2

10 books in all.

Related words

Explore in Scripture

Genesis 23:16And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver, which he had named in the audience of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant.
Exodus 22:17If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.
2 Samuel 14:26And when he polled his head, (for it was at every year’s end that he polled it: because the hair was heavy on him, therefore he polled it:) he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels after the king’s weight.
2 Samuel 18:12And the man said unto Joab, Though I should receive a thousand shekels of silver in mine hand, yet would I not put forth mine hand against the king’s son: for in our hearing the king charged thee and Abishai and Ittai, saying, Beware that none touch the young man Absalom.
1 Kings 20:39And as the king passed by, he cried unto the king: and he said, Thy servant went out into the midst of the battle; and, behold, a man turned aside, and brought a man unto me, and said, Keep this man: if by any means he be missing, then shall thy life be for his life, or else thou shalt pay a talent of silver.
Ezra 8:25And weighed unto them the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, even the offering of the house of our God, which the king, and his counsellors, and his lords, and all Israel there present, had offered:

All 21 verses, by book

Genesis 1: 23:16
Exodus 1: 22:17
2 Samuel 2: 14:26 18:12
1 Kings 1: 20:39
Ezra 4: 8:25 8:26 8:29 8:33
Esther 2: 3:9 4:7
Job 3: 6:2 28:15 31:6
Isaiah 4: 33:18 40:12 46:6 55:2
Jeremiah 2: 32:9 32:10
Zechariah 1: 11:12

Hebrew dictionary

שָׁקַל shaqal · to weigh

1) to weigh, weigh out, pay out 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to weigh 1a2) to weigh out (a price) 1a3) of grief (fig) 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to be weighed 1b2) to be weighed out Aramaic equivalent: te.qal (תְּקַל "to weigh" H8625A)

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “weigh” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

WEIGH, verb transitive

wa. [Latin, G. See Wag.]

To examine by the balance; to ascertain the weight, that is, the force with which a thing tends to the center of gravity; as, to weigh sugar; to weigh gold.
To be equivalent to in weight; that is, according to the Saxon sense of the verb, to lift to an equipoise a weight on the other side of the fulcrum.
To raise; to lift; as an anchor from the ground, or any other body; as, to weigh anchor; to weigh an old hulk.
To pay, allot or take by weight.“They weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver” Zechariah 11:12

All definitions and other forms of “weigh”

To ponder in the mind; to consider or examine for the purpose of forming an opinion or coming to a conclusion; as, to weigh the advantages and disadvantages of a scheme.
To compare by the scales.
To regard; to consider as worthy of notice.
To overbalance.
To oppress with weight; to depress.

WEIGH, verb intransitive

To have weight; as, to weigh lighter or heavier.
To be considered as important; to have weight in the intellectual balance.
To bear heavily; to press hard.

WEIGH, noun

A certain quantity. A weigh of wool, cheese, etc., is 256 lb. Avoirdupois; a weigh of corn is forty bushels; of barly or malt, six quarters.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.