Shekel
שֶׁ֫קֶלStrong’s H8255sheqel (she-qel)
Appears in 54 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Sheqel is the Hebrew word usually translated “shekel of”, “shekel” and “shekels”. It appears in 54 verses of the Old Testament.
“My lord, hearken unto me: the land is worth four hundred shekels of silver; what is that betwixt me and thee? bury therefore thy dead.”
Meaning
- Shekelthe chief unit of weight or measure
How it's translated
- by shekel of 25
- shekel 21
- shekels 20
- the shekel 8
- for a shekel 6
- shekel of 3
- a shekel of 1
- shekels of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Numbers 18
- Exodus 8
- Leviticus 8
- 2 Kings 4
- 1 Samuel 3
- Genesis 2
14 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 21:32If the ox shall push a manservant or a maidservant; he shall give unto their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.
- Exodus 30:13This they shall give, every one that passeth among them that are numbered, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary: (a shekel is twenty gerahs:) an half shekel shall be the offering of the LORD.
- Exodus 30:15The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel, when they give an offering unto the LORD, to make an atonement for your souls.
- Exodus 30:24And of cassia five hundred shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, and of oil olive an hin:
- Exodus 38:24All the gold that was occupied for the work in all the work of the holy place, even the gold of the offering, was twenty and nine talents, and seven hundred and thirty shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary.
All 54 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
שֶׁ֫קֶל sheqel · shekel
1) shekel 1a) the chief unit of weight or measure 1a1) gold-1/10000 of a talent and equal to 220 grains 1a2) silver-1/3000 of a talent and equal to 132 grains 1a3) copper-1/1500 of a talent and equal to 528 grains Aramaic equivalent: te.qel (תְּקֵל "shekel" H8625B)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “shekel” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SHEK'EL, noun
[Heb. to way; Low Latin siclus.]
An ancient weight and coin among the Jews and other nations of the same stock. Dr. Arbuthnot makes the weight to have been equal to 9 pennyweights, 2 4/7 grains, Troy weight, and the value of 3/8d. sterling, or about half a dollar. Others make its value 2 Sam 6d. sterling. The golden shekel was worht 1. 16. 6. pounds sterling, about $8, 12.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.