שֶׁקֶל sheqel

Hebrew word for “shekel” · Strong’s H8255 · used 88 times in 54 verses

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Meaning

1) shekel; 1a) the chief unit of weight or measure;

How it is translated

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

• shekels 46
• shekel 42

Where it is used

Also in 2 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Numbers 7 (14), Leviticus 27 (7), Exodus 38 (4), Exodus 30 (3), 2 Kings 7 (3), Genesis 23 (2), Numbers 3 (2), 1 Samuel 17 (2), Exodus 21 (1), Leviticus 5 (1)

Forms

• בשׁקל 31
• שׁקל 26
• שׁקלים 20
• השׁקל 8
• שׁקלי 1
• לשׁקלים 1
• והשׁקל 1

Words used with it

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

• כֶּסֶף keseph “silver” 29
• מֵאָה meah “hundred” 27
• קֹדֶשׁ qodesh “holiness” 25
• מִשְׁקָל mishqal “weight” 16
• קְעָרָה qearah “dish” 13
• סֹלֶת solet “fine flour” 15
• מִזְרָק mizraq “bowl” 13
• שִׁבְעִים shivim “seventy” 15
• שְׁלֹשִׁים sheloshim “thirty” 16
• מָלֵא male “full” 13
• בָּלַל balal “to mix” 12
• קׇרְבָּן qorban “offering” 12

Key verses

The verses using sheqel 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…
• Exodus 30:13 — This they shall give, every one that passeth among them that are numbered, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary: (a shekel is twenty gerahs:) an…
• Exodus 30:15 — The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel, when they give an offering unto the LORD, to make an atonement for your…
• Exodus 38:24 — All the gold that was occupied for the work in all the work of the holy place, even the gold of the offering, was twenty and nine talents, and seven hundred…
• Leviticus 5:15 — If a soul commit a trespass, and sin through ignorance, in the holy things of the LORD; then he shall bring for his trespass unto the LORD a ram without…
• Numbers 3:47 — Thou shalt even take five shekels apiece by the poll, after the shekel of the sanctuary shalt thou take (the shekel is twenty gerahs:)
• 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,…
• 2 Kings 7:1 — Then Elisha said, Hear ye the word of the LORD; Thus saith the LORD, To morrow about this time shall a measure of fine flour be sold for a shekel, and two…
• 2 Kings 7:16 — And the people went out, and spoiled the tents of the Syrians. So a measure of fine flour was sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel,…
• Nehemiah 5:15 — But the former governors that had been before me were chargeable unto the people, and had taken of them bread and wine, beside forty shekels of silver; yea,…
• Amos 8:5 — Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and…

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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.