OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 5208

shekel

/ˈʃɛkəl/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
séquel
A currency unit of both ancient and modern Israel.
"Beauty is naught to him, because there are lips more honey-sweet; and wealth is naught, because others can weigh him down with heavier shekels; and fame is naught, because there h…
So David bought the threshingfloor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.
siclo
An ancient unit of weight equivalent to one-fiftieth of a mina.
And it came to pass, as the camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden earring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold;
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