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Hebrew verb · H8254

שָׁקַל

shaqalshaw-kal'

to weigh

22 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: shâqal

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H8254is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 10 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 22
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H8254

to suspend or poise (especially in trade)

The King James renders it: pay, receive(-r), spend, [idiom] throughly, weigh.

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

shaqal is rendered "to weigh". It stands 22 times in the Hebrew text, across ten books.

  • Four of the uses stand in Ezra, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 23:16Abraham agreed to Ephron’s terms and weighed out for him the price he had named in the hearing of the Hittites: four hundred shekels of silver, according to the standard of the merchants.
  • The Greek text spells it twenty-two different ways.

The first use

Abraham agreed to Ephron’s terms and weighed out for him the price he had named in the hearing of the Hittites: four hundred shekels of silver, according to the standard of the merchants.

Genesis 23:16וַיִּשְׁקֹ֤ל

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

The word stands in ten of the 39 Old Testament books.

The other 29 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • and I weighed out4
  • you will weigh out2
  • and has he weighed1
  • and he weighed1
  • and he weighed out1
  • and they weighed out1
  • certainly to weigh1
  • do you weigh out1
  • he will weigh out1
  • I will weigh out1
  • it was weighed out1
  • it will be weighed1

and 6 more, 22 uses in all

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

שָׁקָהshaqahto water: wateringUses61
שָׁקַטshaqatto quietUses41
שָׁקַףshaqaphto lookUses22
שָׁקַדshaqadto watchUses12
שָׁקַץshaqatsto detestUses7
שָׁקַדshaqadbe almond shapedUses6
שָׁקַעshaqato sinkUses6
שָׁקַקshaqaqto rushUses6
שָׁקַרshaqarto dealUses6
שָׁקֵדshaqedalmondUses4
שָׁקֻףshaquphframeUses2
שָׁקshaqlegUses1

All 22, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

22 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • אֶשְׁקוֹל֙1
  • וָאֶשְׁקֹ֥ל1
  • וָאֶשְׁקֲלָ֨ה1
  • וָאֶשְׁקֳלָ֣ה1
  • וָֽאֶשְׁקֲלָה־1
  • וַיִּשְׁקֹ֤ל1
  • וַיִּשְׁקְל֥וּ1
  • וְשָׁקַל֙1
  • וְשָׁקַ֤ל1
  • יִשְׁקֹ֔ל1
  • יִשָּׁקֵ֣ל1
  • יִ֝שָּׁקֵ֗ל1

and 10 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • Hc/Vqw1cs/Sh3Hc/Vqw1cs/Sh
  • Hc/Vqq3ms2Hc/Vqq3ms
  • verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular2HVNi3ms
  • verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine plural2HVqi2mp
  • verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular2HVqrmsa
  • Hc/Vqw1cs1Hc/Vqw1cs
  • Hc/Vqw3mp1Hc/Vqw3mp
  • Hc/Vqw3ms1Hc/Vqw3ms
  • preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)1HR/Vqcc
  • verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1HVNp3ms
  • verb · simple (qal), infinitive absolute1HVqaa
  • verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular1HVqi1cs

Genesis

one use
  • Abraham agreed to Ephron’s terms and weighed out for him the price he had named in the hearing of the Hittites: four hundred shekels of silver, according to the standard of the merchants.

    Genesis 23:16

    • וַיִּשְׁקֹ֤לvaiyishkolHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he weighed out

Exodus

one use
  • If her father absolutely refuses to give her to him, the man still must pay an amount comparable to the bridal price of a virgin.

    Exodus 22:17

    • יִשְׁקֹ֔לyishkolverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will weigh out

2 Samuel

two uses
  • And when he cut the hair of his head—he shaved it every year because his hair got so heavy—he would weigh it out to be two hundred shekels, according to the royal standard.

    2 Samuel 14:26

    • וְשָׁקַל֙veshakalHc/Vqq3mstagged: and he weighed
  • The man replied, “Even if a thousand shekels of silver were weighed out into my hands, I would not raise my hand against the son of the king. For we heard the king command you and Abishai and Ittai, ‘Protect the young man Absalom for my sake.’

    2 Samuel 18:12

    • שֹׁקֵ֤לshokelverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: weighing

1 Kings

one use
  • As the king passed by, he cried out to the king: “Your servant had marched out into the middle of the battle, when suddenly a man came over with a captive and told me, ‘Guard this man! If he goes missing for any reason, your life will be exchanged for his life, or you will weigh out a talent of silver.’

    1 Kings 20:39

    • תִּשְׁקֽוֹל׃tishkolverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will weigh out

Ezra

four uses
  • and I weighed out to them the contribution of silver and gold and the articles that the king, his counselors, his leaders, and all the Israelites there had offered for the house of our God.

    Ezra 8:25

    • וָאֶשְׁקֳלָ֣הvaeshkolahHc/Vqw1cs/Shtagged: and I weighed out
  • I weighed out into their hands 650 talents of silver, articles of silver weighing 100 talents, 100 talents of gold,

    Ezra 8:26

    • וָאֶשְׁקֲלָ֨הvaeshkalahHc/Vqw1cs/Shtagged: and I weighed out
  • Guard them carefully until you weigh them out in the chambers of the house of the LORD in Jerusalem before the leading priests, Levites, and heads of the Israelite families.”

    Ezra 8:29

    • תִּשְׁקְל֡וּtishkeluverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you will weigh out
  • On the fourth day, in the house of our God, we weighed out the silver and gold and sacred articles into the hand of Meremoth son of Uriah, the priest. Eleazar son of Phinehas was with him, along with the Levites Jozabad son of Jeshua and Noadiah son of Binnui.

    Ezra 8:33

    • נִשְׁקַ֣לnishkalverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it was weighed out

Esther

two uses
  • If it pleases the king, let a decree be issued to destroy them, and I will deposit ten thousand talents of silver into the royal treasury to pay those who carry it out.”

    Esther 3:9

    • אֶשְׁקוֹל֙ʾeshkolverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will weigh out
  • and Mordecai told him all that had happened to him, including the exact amount of money that Haman had promised to pay into the royal treasury in order to destroy the Jews.

    Esther 4:7

    • לִ֠שְׁקוֹלlishkolpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to weigh out

Job

four uses
  • “If only my grief could be weighed and placed with my calamity on the scales.

    Job 6:2

    • שָׁק֣וֹלshakolverb · simple (qal), infinitive absolutetagged: certainly to weigh
    • יִשָּׁקֵ֣לyishakelverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will be weighed
  • It cannot be bought with gold, nor can its price be weighed out in silver.

    Job 28:15

    • יִ֝שָּׁקֵ֗לyishakelverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will be weighed out
  • let God weigh me with honest scales, that He may know my integrity.

    Job 31:6

    • יִשְׁקְלֵ֥נִיyishkeleniverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: let him weigh me

Isaiah

four uses
  • Your mind will ponder the former terror: “Where is he who tallies? Where is he who weighs? Where is he who counts the towers?”

    Isaiah 33:18

    • שֹׁקֵ֔לshokelverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: weighed
  • Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, or marked off the heavens with the span of his hand? Who has held the dust of the earth in a basket, or weighed the mountains on a scale and the hills with a balance?

    Isaiah 40:12

    • וְשָׁקַ֤לveshakalHc/Vqq3mstagged: and has he weighed
  • They pour out their bags of gold and weigh out silver on scales; they hire a goldsmith to fashion it into a god, so they can bow down and worship.

    Isaiah 46:6

    • יִשְׁקֹ֑לוּyishkoluverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they weigh out
  • Why spend money on that which is not bread, and your labor on that which does not satisfy? Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good, and your soul will delight in the richest of foods.

    Isaiah 55:2

    • תִשְׁקְלוּ־tishkelu-verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: do you weigh out

Jeremiah

two uses
  • So I bought the field in Anathoth from my cousin Hanamel, and I weighed out seventeen shekels of silver.

    Jeremiah 32:9

    • וָֽאֶשְׁקֲלָה־vaeshkalah-Hc/Vqw1cs/Shtagged: and I weighed out
  • I signed and sealed the deed, called in witnesses, and weighed out the silver on the scales.

    Jeremiah 32:10

    • וָאֶשְׁקֹ֥לvaeshkolHc/Vqw1cstagged: and I weighed out

Zechariah

one use
  • Then I told them, “If it seems right to you, give me my wages; but if not, keep them.” So they weighed out my wages, thirty pieces of silver.

    Zechariah 11:12

    • וַיִּשְׁקְל֥וּvaiyishkeluHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they weighed out

The letters

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.

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Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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