תְּקַל
tekal · weigh
Aramaic word · Strong’s number H8625 · appears 3 times in the Bible
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tekal (תְּקַל) is an Aramaic word of the Bible that means “weigh”.
To weigh (Aramaic); "Tekel", of the writing on the wall.
How to say it
te·kal
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
- A word written on the wall: a shekel, a unit of weight.
- To weigh something on the scale, to see whether it is what it should be.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- Tekel ×2
- you have been weighed ×1
Related words
Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Daniel 5:25
And this is the writing that was inscribed: Mene, Mene, Tekel, Uparsin.
- Daniel 5:27
Tekel, you have been weighed in the balance and found lacking.
And 1 more times.