שֶׁקֶל H8255

Home gloss: shekel
Instead of (KJV / RSV): shekel
Note: A loanword already in English (5): a weight of silver, not a coin (23:15–16). The noun of שָׁקַל "weigh"
Rulings: 5

Occurrences (2)

23:15 "My lord, hear me: land of four hundred shekel of silver—between me and between you, what is it? And your dead—bury!"
23:16 And Abraham heard Ephron, and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver which he had spoken in the ears of the sons of Heth: four hundred shekel of silver, passing over to the merchant.