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Aramaic

To weigh

תְּקַלStrong’s H8625

teqal (te-qal)

Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Teqal is the Aramaic word usually translated “teqel” and “have been weighed”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.

“And this is the writing that was written, MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.”
Daniel 5:25 KJV
Meaning
  1. To weigh(P'il) to be weighed
  2. Tekel, shekel(P'al) tekel-a unit of weight, shekel
How it's translated
  • teqel 2
  • you have been weighed 1

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

Where it's used most
  • Daniel 2

1 book in all.

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Aramaic dictionary

תְּקַל teqal · to weigh

v 1) to weigh 1a) (P'il) to be weighed

תְּקֵל teqel · shekel

1) tekel, shekel 1a) (P'al) tekel-a unit of weight, shekel

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.]

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. To raise; to lift; as an anchor from the ground, or any other body; as, to weigh anchor; to weigh an old hulk.
  4. 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”
  1. 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.
  2. To compare by the scales.
  3. To regard; to consider as worthy of notice.
  4. To overbalance.
  5. To oppress with weight; to depress.

WEIGH, verb intransitive

  1. To have weight; as, to weigh lighter or heavier.
  2. To be considered as important; to have weight in the intellectual balance.
  3. 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.

    Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Aramaic, not from any one translation.