שֶׁ֫קֶל

she.qelshekelHow to read Hebrew
hebrewOld TestamentNoun · masculine88 occurrences14 books54 verses

Definition

from H8254; probably a weight; used as a commercial standard
Traditional renderings: shekel.

In the Greek Old Testament

How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders שֶׁ֫קֶל:

Usage patterns

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Occurrences

88 total
  1. Numbers 7:61שֶׁ֖קֶל · shekels; בְּשֶׁ֣קֶל · shekel
    His offering was one silver platter weighing a hundred and thirty shekels, and one silver bowl weighing seventy shekels, both according to the sanctuary shekel and filled with fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;
  2. Numbers 7:67שֶׁ֖קֶל · shekels; בְּשֶׁ֣קֶל · shekel
    His offering was one silver platter weighing a hundred and thirty shekels, and one silver bowl weighing seventy shekels, both according to the sanctuary shekel and filled with fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;
  3. Numbers 7:73שֶׁ֖קֶל · shekels; בְּשֶׁ֣קֶל · shekel
    His offering was one silver platter weighing a hundred and thirty shekels, and one silver bowl weighing seventy shekels, both according to the sanctuary shekel and filled with fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;
  4. Numbers 7:79שֶׁ֖קֶל · shekels; בְּשֶׁ֣קֶל · shekel
    His offering was one silver platter weighing a hundred and thirty shekels, and one silver bowl weighing seventy shekels, both according to the sanctuary shekel and filled with fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;
  5. Numbers 7:85בְּשֶׁ֥קֶל · shekel
    Each silver platter weighed a hundred and thirty shekels, and each silver bowl seventy shekels. The total weight of the silver articles was two thousand four hundred shekels, according to the sanctuary shekel.
  6. Numbers 7:86בְּשֶׁ֣קֶל · shekel
    The twelve gold dishes filled with incense weighed ten shekels each, according to the sanctuary shekel. The total weight of the gold dishes was a hundred and twenty shekels.
  7. Numbers 18:16שְׁקָלִ֖ים · shekels; בְּשֶׁ֣קֶל · shekel
    You are to pay the redemption price for a month-old male according to your valuation: five shekels of silver, according to the sanctuary shekel, which is twenty gerahs.
  8. Numbers 31:52שָׁ֑קֶל · shekels
    All the gold that the commanders of thousands and of hundreds presented as an offering to the LORD weighed 16,750 shekels.
  9. Joshua 7:21שְׁקָלִ֣ים · shekels; שְׁקָלִים֙ · shekels
    When I saw among the spoils a beautiful cloak from Shinar, two hundred shekels of silver, and a bar of gold weighing fifty shekels, I coveted them and took them. They are hidden in the ground inside my tent, with the silver underneath.”
  10. 1 Samuel 9:8שֶׁ֣קֶל · shekel
    The servant answered him again. “Look,” he said, “I have here in my hand a quarter shekel of silver. I will give it to the man of God, and he will tell us our way.”
  11. 1 Samuel 17:5שְׁקָלִ֖ים · shekels
    …and he had a bronze helmet on his head. He wore a bronze coat of mail weighing five thousand shekels,
  12. 1 Samuel 17:7שְׁקָלִ֖ים · shekels
    The shaft of his spear was like a weaver’s beam, and its iron point weighed six hundred shekels. In addition, his shield bearer went before him.
  13. 2 Samuel 14:26שְׁקָלִ֖ים · shekels
    And when he cut the hair of his head—he shaved it every year because his hair got so heavy—he would weigh it out to be two hundred shekels, according to the royal standard.
  14. 2 Samuel 24:24שְׁקָלִ֥ים · shekels
    “No,” replied the king, “I insist on paying a price, for I will not offer to the LORD my God burnt offerings that cost me nothing.” So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.
  15. 2 Kings 7:1בְּשֶׁ֗קֶל · [will sell] for a shekel; בְּשֶׁ֖קֶל · will sell for a shekel
    Then Elisha said, “Hear the word of the LORD! This is what the LORD says: ‘About this time tomorrow at the gate of Samaria, a seah of fine flour will sell for a shekel, and two seahs of barley will sell for a shekel.’”
  16. 2 Kings 7:16בְּשֶׁ֗קֶל · [sold] for a shekel; בְּשֶׁ֖קֶל · [sold] for a shekel
    Then the people went out and plundered the camp of the Arameans. It was then that a seah of fine flour sold for a shekel, and two seahs of barley sold for a shekel, according to the word of the LORD.
  17. 2 Kings 7:18בְּשֶׁ֗קֶל · will sell for a shekel; בְּשֶׁ֔קֶל · for a shekel
    It happened just as the man of God had told the king: “About this time tomorrow at the gate of Samaria, two seahs of barley will sell for a shekel, and a seah of fine flour will sell for a shekel.”
  18. 2 Kings 15:20שְׁקָלִ֛ים · shekels
    Menahem exacted this money from each of the wealthy men of Israel—fifty shekels of silver from each man—to give to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria withdrew and did not remain in the land.
  19. 1 Chronicles 21:25שִׁקְלֵ֣י · shekels
    So David paid Ornan six hundred shekels of gold for the site.
  20. 2 Chronicles 3:9לִשְׁקָלִ֖ים · shekels
    The weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. He also overlaid the upper rooms with gold.
  21. Nehemiah 5:15שְׁקָלִ֣ים · shekels
    The governors before me had heavily burdened the people, taking from them bread and wine plus forty shekels of silver. Their servants also oppressed the people. But I did not do this, because of my fear of God.
  22. Nehemiah 10:32הַשֶּׁ֖קֶל · of a shekel
    We also place ourselves under the obligation to contribute a third of a shekel yearly for the service of the house of our God:
  23. Jeremiah 32:9שְׁקָלִ֖ים · shekels
    So I bought the field in Anathoth from my cousin Hanamel, and I weighed out seventeen shekels of silver.
  24. Ezekiel 4:10שֶׁ֖קֶל · shekels
    You are to weigh out twenty shekels of food to eat each day, and you are to eat it at set times.
  25. Ezekiel 45:12וְהַשֶּׁ֖קֶל · The shekel; שְׁקָלִ֜ים · shekels; שְׁקָלִ֗ים · shekels; שֶׁ֔קֶל · shekels
    The shekel will consist of twenty gerahs. Twenty shekels plus twenty-five shekels plus fifteen shekels will equal one mina.
  26. Amos 8:5שֶׁ֔קֶל · the shekel
    …asking, “When will the New Moon be over, that we may sell grain? When will the Sabbath end, that we may market wheat? Let us reduce the ephah and increase the shekel; let us cheat with dishonest scales.