Hebrew Strong's Lexicon

H8255

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Lemma: שֶׁ֫קֶל

Transliteration: sheh'-kel

Definition: from שָׁקַל; probably a weight; used as a commercial standard

KJV Definition: shekel

Verse usage

  • 2 Samuel 14:26 NASB
    When he cut the hair of his head (and it was at the end of every year that he cut [it], for it was heavy on him so he cut it), he weighed the hair of his head at 200 shekels by the king's weight.
  • 2 Samuel 24:24 NASB
    However, the king said to Araunah, "No, but I will surely buy [it] from you for a price, for I will not offer burnt offerings to the LORD my God which cost me nothing." So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.
  • 2 Reinan 7:1 NASB
    Then Elisha said, "Listen to the word of the LORD; thus says the LORD, 'Tomorrow about this time a measure of fine flour will be [sold] for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria.'"
  • 2 Reinan 7:16 NASB
    So the people went out and plundered the camp of the Arameans. Then a measure of fine flour [was sold] for a shekel and two measures of barley for a shekel, according to the word of the LORD.
  • 2 Reinan 7:18 NASB
    It happened just as the man of God had spoken to the king, saying, "Two measures of barley for a shekel and a measure of fine flour for a shekel, will be [sold] tomorrow about this time at the gate of Samaria."
  • 2 Reinan 15:20 NASB
    Then Menahem exacted the money from Israel, even from all the mighty men of wealth, from each man fifty shekels of silver to pay the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria returned and did not remain there in the land.
  • 1 Kronikonan 21:25 NASB
    So David gave Ornan 600 shekels of gold by weight for the site.
  • 2 Kronikonan 3:9 NASB
    The weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. He also overlaid the upper rooms with gold.
  • Nehemias 5:15 NASB
    But the former governors who were before me laid burdens on the people and took from them bread and wine besides forty shekels of silver; even their servants domineered the people. But I did not do so because of the fear of God.
  • Nehemias 10:32 NASB
    We also placed ourselves under obligation to contribute yearly one third of a shekel for the service of the house of our God:
  • Yeremias 32:9 NASB
    "I bought the field which was at Anathoth from Hanamel my uncle's son, and I weighed out the silver for him, seventeen shekels of silver.
  • Ezikiel 4:10 NASB
    "Your food which you eat [shall be] twenty shekels a day by weight; you shall eat it from time to time.
  • Ezikiel 45:12 NASB
    "The shekel shall be twenty gerahs; twenty shekels, twenty-five shekels, [and] fifteen shekels shall be your maneh.
  • Amos 8:5 NASB
    saying, "When will the new moon be over, So that we may sell grain, And the sabbath, that we may open the wheat [market], To make the bushel smaller and the shekel bigger, And to cheat with dishonest scales,