שָׁקַל shaqal

Hebrew word for “to weigh” · Strong’s H8254 · used 22 times in 21 verses

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Meaning

1) to weigh, weigh out, pay out;

How it is translated

Glosses given for shaqal in context, with how often each is used:

• weighed out 4
• will weigh out 3
• weighed out ! 3
• weigh out 2
• weighed 1
• weighing 1
• will weigh them out 1
• certainly if 1
• will be weighed 1
• will be weighed out 1
• him weigh 1
• one who weighed 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Ezra 8 (4), Jeremiah 32 (2), Genesis 23 (1), Exodus 22 (1), 2 Samuel 14 (1), 2 Samuel 18 (1), 1 Kings 20 (1), Esther 3 (1), Esther 4 (1), Job 6 (1)

Forms

• ישׁקל 3
• ואשׁקלה 3
• ושׁקל 2
• שׁקל 2
• תשׁקלו 2
• וישׁקל 1
• תשׁקול 1
• נשׁקל 1
• אשׁקול 1
• לשׁקול 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with shaqal more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• כֶּסֶף keseph “silver” 15
• מֹאזֵן mozen “balance” 4
• שֶׁקֶל sheqel “shekel” 3
• כִּכָּר kikkar “talent” 3
• גְּנָזִים genez “treasury” 2
• זָהָב zahav “gold” 4
• לוּ lu “if” 2
• כְּלִי keli “article/utensil” 3
• אִם im “if” 4
• שָׁמַר shamar “to keep” 3
• מֵאָה meah “hundred” 3
• עֶשֶׂר eser “ten” 2

Key verses

The verses using shaqal that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Genesis 23:16 — And 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…
• 1 Kings 20:39 — And as the king passed by, he cried unto the king: and he said, Thy servant went out into the midst of the battle; and, behold, a man turned aside, and brought…
• Ezra 8:25 — And weighed unto them the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, even the offering of the house of our God, which the king, and his counsellors, and his lords,…
• Ezra 8:33 — Now on the fourth day was the silver and the gold and the vessels weighed in the house of our God by the hand of Meremoth the son of Uriah the priest; and with…
• Job 6:2 — Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!
• Job 31:6 — Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity.
• Isaiah 33:18 — Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where is the scribe? where is the receiver? where is he that counted the towers?
• Isaiah 40:12 — Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed…
• Isaiah 46:6 — They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance, and hire a goldsmith; and he maketh it a god: they fall down, yea, they worship.
• Isaiah 55:2 — Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is…
• Jeremiah 32:10 — And I subscribed the evidence, and sealed it, and took witnesses, and weighed him the money in the balances.
• Zechariah 11:12 — And I said unto them, If ye think good, give me my price; and if not, forbear. So they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver.

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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.