H8255

שׁקל 

Transliteration

sheqel;

Pronunciation

sheh'-kel

Parts of Speech

n m

Root Word (Etymology)

from 8254

Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 2454a

KJV Translation Count — 88x

The KJV translates Strongs H1 in the following manner: shekel (88)

Outline of Biblical Usage

1. shekel
a. the chief unit of weight or measure
1. gold-1/10000 of a talent and equal to 220 grains
2. silver-1/3000 of a talent and equal to 132 grains
3. copper-1/1500 of a talent and equal to 528 grains

Strong's Definitions

sheqel, sheh'-kel; from 8254; probably a weight; used as a commercial standard: — shekel.

Concordance Results Using KJV

My lord, hearken unto me: the land is worth four hundred H8255s of silver; what is that betwixt me and thee? bury therefore thy dead.

KJV

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 H8255s of silver, current money with the merchant.

KJV

If the ox shall push a manservant or a maidservant; he shall give unto their master thirty H8255s of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.

KJV

This they shall give, every one that passeth among them that are numbered, half a H8255 after the H8255 of the sanctuary: (a H8255 is twenty gerahs:) an half H8255 shall be the offering of the LORD.

KJV

The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less than half a H8255, when they give an offering unto the LORD, to make an atonement for your souls.

KJV

And of cassia five hundred H8255s, after the H8255 of the sanctuary, and of oil olive an hin:

KJV

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 and thirty H8255s, after the H8255 of the sanctuary.

KJV

And the silver of them that were numbered of the congregation was an hundred talents, and a thousand seven hundred and threescore and fifteen H8255s, after the H8255 of the sanctuary:

KJV

A bekah for every man, that is, half a H8255, after the H8255 of the sanctuary, for every one that went to be numbered, from twenty years old and upward, for six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty men.

KJV

And the brass of the offering was seventy talents, and two thousand and four hundred H8255s.

KJV