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Word Study · Strong's H8255 · Hebrew

שֶׁקֶל

sheqel

sheh'-kel

probably a weight

Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain

probably a weight; used as a commercial standard

Rendered in the KJV as

shekel.

  • 88
    occurrencesin the Old Testament
  • 14 of 39
    Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
  • 31
    inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 88 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 31

  • בְּשֶׁ֣קֶל18
  • שֶׁ֖קֶל15
  • שְׁקָלִ֖ים8
  • בְּשֶׁ֥קֶל5
  • בְּשֶׁ֗קֶל3
  • הַשֶּׁ֖קֶל3
  • בְּשֶׁ֖קֶל2
  • הַשֶּׁ֔קֶל2
  • שֶׁ֣קֶל2
  • שֶׁ֥קֶל2
  • שֶׁ֔קֶל2
  • שָׁ֑קֶל2

and 19 more spellings in the ledger below.

How it is rendered · 11

  • by [the] shekel of25
  • shekel[s]21
  • shekels20
  • the shekel8
  • for a shekel6
  • shekel[s] of3
  • a shekel1
  • a shekel of1
  • and the shekel1
  • shekels of1
  • to shekels1

The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.

How it parses · 9

  • preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)25
  • noun · masculine singular22
  • noun · masculine plural20
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular8
  • preposition + noun · masculine singular6
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)4
  • conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular1
  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)1
  • preposition + noun · masculine plural1
Show the grammar codes as tagged
  • HR/Ncmsc · 25
  • HNcmsa · 22
  • HNcmpa · 20
  • HTd/Ncmsa · 8
  • HR/Ncmsa · 6
  • HNcmsc · 4
  • HC/Td/Ncmsa · 1
  • HNcmpc · 1
  • HR/Ncmpa · 1

All 88, in canonical order

The ledger of occurrences

Where this word lives

Numbers carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.

Genesis2 occurrences
Exodus14 occurrences
Leviticus14 occurrences
Numbers33 occurrences
Joshua2 occurrences
1 Samuel3 occurrences
2 Samuel2 occurrences
2 Kings7 occurrences
1 Chronicles1 occurrence
2 Chronicles1 occurrence
Nehemiah2 occurrences
Jeremiah1 occurrence
Ezekiel5 occurrences
Amos1 occurrence
Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), CC BY 4.0 — their grammar codes written out in English here, and shown as tagged under each list. Dictionary: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).