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 shekels weight of gold;
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Shekel
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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 falsifying the balances by deceit?
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שֶׁקֶל
sheqel · sheh'-kel
42 times translated as this KJV form88 total Strong's occurrences
probably a weight; used as a commercial standard
Strong's KJV usage: shekel.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Exodus 30:13Strong's last: Amos 8:5
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beqaʻ · beh'-kah
1 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
a section (half) of a shekel, i.e. a beka (a weight and a coin)
Strong's KJV usage: bekah, half a shekel.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 24:22Strong's last: Genesis 24:22
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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 falsifying the balances by deceit?
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shekel
SHEK'EL, noun [Heb. to way; Low Latin siclus.] An ancient weight and coin among the Jews and other nations of the same stock. Dr. Arbuthnot makes the weight to have been equal to 9 pennyweights, 2 4/7 grains, Troy weight, and the value of 2 Samuel 3:1 3/8d. sterling, or about half a dollar. Others make its value 2 Sam 6d. sterling. The golden shekel was worht 1. 16. 6. pounds sterling, about $8, 12.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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