מִשְׁקָל mishqal
Hebrew word for “weight” · Strong’s H4948 · used 49 times in 42 verses
Meaning
heaviness, weight
How it is translated
Glosses given for mishqal in context, with how often each is used:
- weight 49
Where it is used
| Book | Uses | Per 1,000 words | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Chronicles | 13 | 1.2 | |
| Numbers | 12 | 0.7 | |
| Genesis | 3 | 0.1 | |
| 2 Samuel | 3 | 0.3 | |
| 2 Chronicles | 3 | 0.2 | |
| Ezra | 3 | 0.8 | |
| Leviticus | 2 | 0.2 | |
| 1 Kings | 2 | 0.2 | |
| Ezekiel | 2 | 0.1 | |
| Joshua | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Judges | 1 | 0.1 | |
| 1 Samuel | 1 | 0.1 |
Also in 3 more books.
Chapters where it is used most
Numbers 7 (12), 1 Chronicles 28 (5), 1 Chronicles 22 (2), Ezra 8 (2), Genesis 24 (1), Genesis 43 (1), Leviticus 19 (1), Leviticus 26 (1), Joshua 7 (1), Judges 8 (1)
Forms
- משׁקל 16
- משׁקלה 12
- במשׁקל 11
- ומשׁקל 4
- משׁקלו 2
- משׁקלם 1
- במשׁקלו 1
- ומשׁקלה 1
- המשׁקל 1
Words used with it
Words that share verses with mishqal more often than their overall frequency would suggest:
- שֶׁקֶל sheqel “shekel” 16
- קְעָרָה qearah “dish” 12
- מִזְרָק mizraq “bowl” 13
- כֶּסֶף keseph “silver” 20
- בָּלַל balal “to mix” 12
- סֹלֶת solet “fine flour” 12
- מֵאָה meah “hundred” 19
- מָלֵא male “full” 12
- קׇרְבָּן qorban “offering” 12
- זָהָב zahav “gold” 16
- שִׁבְעִים shivim “seventy” 12
- אֶחָד echad “one” 18
Key verses
The verses using mishqal that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):
- Genesis 24:22 — And it came to pass, as the camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden earring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten…
- Genesis 43:21 — And it came to pass, when we came to the inn, that we opened our sacks, and, behold, every man’s money was in the mouth of his sack, our money in full weight:…
- Leviticus 19:35 — Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure.
- Leviticus 26:26 — And when I have broken the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver you your bread again by weight: and ye…
- Numbers 7:13 — And his offering was one silver charger, the weight thereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the…
- Joshua 7:21 — When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them,…
- Judges 8:26 — And the weight of the golden earrings that he requested was a thousand and seven hundred shekels of gold; beside ornaments, and collars, and purple raiment…
- 2 Samuel 21:16 — And Ishbi-benob, which was of the sons of the giant, the weight of whose spear weighed three hundred shekels of brass in weight, he being girded with a new…
- 1 Chronicles 22:3 — And David prepared iron in abundance for the nails for the doors of the gates, and for the joinings; and brass in abundance without weight;
- 1 Chronicles 22:14 — Now, behold, in my trouble I have prepared for the house of the LORD an hundred thousand talents of gold, and a thousand thousand talents of silver; and of…
- 1 Chronicles 28:18 — And for the altar of incense refined gold by weight; and gold for the pattern of the chariot of the cherubims, that spread out their wings, and covered the ark…
- Ezekiel 4:16 — Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with care; and they shall…
See all 42 verses in the Word Atlas
Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.