shakal · weigh

What it means

shakal (שָׁקַל) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “weigh”.

Pay by weighing out silver.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To pay or buy by putting the silver on a scale to see how much it weighs.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• weighed ×10
• weigh ×8
• I weighed out ×3
• were weighing ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Exodus×1
• 2 Samuel×2
• 1 Kings×1
• Ezra×4
• Esther×2
• Job×4
• Isaiah×4
• Jeremiah×2
• Zechariah×1

• Genesis 23:16

  Abraham listened to Ephron, and Abraham weighed out for Ephron the silver that he had named in the hearing of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current among the merchants.

• Exodus 22:17

  If her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he shall weigh out silver according to the bride-price of virgins.

• 2 Samuel 14:26

  When he shaved his head —and it was at the end of every year that he shaved it, for it was heavy on him, and he shaved it —he weighed the hair of his head: two hundred shekels by the weight of the king.

• 2 Samuel 18:12

  The man said to Joab, “Even if I were weighing on my palms a thousand shekels of silver, I would not put out my hand against the son of the king; for in our ears the king commanded you and Abishai and Ittai, saying, ‘Protect, whoever you are, the young man, Absalom.’

• 1 Kings 20:39

  And it happened, as the king was passing by, that he cried out to the king and said, “Your servant went out into the midst of the battle; and there, a man turned aside and brought a man to me and said, ‘Guard this man; if he is missing at all, your life will be for his life, or you will weigh out a talent of silver.’

• Ezra 8:25

  and I weighed out to them the silver and the gold and the utensils, the contribution for the house of our Elohim, which the king and his counselors and his officials and all Israel who were present had offered;

• Ezra 8:26

  I weighed out into their hand six hundred fifty talents of silver, and utensils of silver worth one hundred talents, gold, one hundred talents,

• Ezra 8:29

  Keep watch and guard them until you weigh them before the leaders of the priests and the Levites and the leaders of the fathers’ houses of Israel in Jerusalem, in the chambers of the house of YHWH.”

• Ezra 8:33

  And on the fourth day the silver and the gold and the utensils were weighed in the house of our Elohim by the hand of Meremoth the son of Uriah the priest, and with him was Eleazar the son of Phinehas, and with them were Jozabad the son of Jeshua and Noadiah the son of Binnui, the Levites:

• Esther 3:9

  If it seems good to the king, let it be written to make them perish; and ten thousand talents of silver I will weigh out into the hands of those who do the work, to bring it into the treasuries of the king.”

• Esther 4:7

  And Mordecai made known to him all that had happened to him, and the sum of the silver that Haman had said he would weigh out to the king’s treasuries for the Jews, to make them perish.

• Job 6:2

  “If only my vexation were truly weighed, and my calamity lifted onto the scales together.

• Job 28:15

  Fine gold cannot be given in exchange for it, nor can silver be weighed as its price.

• Job 31:6

  let him weigh me in scales of righteousness, and let Eloah know my integrity.

• Isaiah 33:18

  Your heart will meditate on the terror: “Where is the one who counted? Where is the one who weighed? Where is the one who counted the towers?”

• Isaiah 40:12

  Who has measured in the hollow of his hand the waters, and the heavens with the span gauged, and held in a measure the dust of the earth, and weighed with the scale the mountains and the hills with a balance?

• Isaiah 46:6

  Those who lavish gold from the purse, and weigh silver on the rod of the scale, hire a goldsmith, and he makes it a god; they fall down, also they bow down.

• Isaiah 55:2

  Why do you weigh out silver for what is not bread, and the fruit of your labor for what does not satisfy? Listen carefully to me, and eat what is good, and your soul will delight itself in fatness.

• Jeremiah 32:9

  And I bought the field from Hanamel my uncle's son that was in Anathoth, and I weighed out to him the silver, seventeen shekels of silver.

• Jeremiah 32:10

  And I wrote it in the deed and sealed it, and had witnesses testify, and weighed the silver on the scales.

• Zechariah 11:12

  And I said to them, “If it is good in your eyes, give me my wages; and if not, leave it.” And they weighed out my wages: thirty pieces of silver.

And 1 more times.