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Lexicon :: Strong's H8254 - šāqal

Aa
שָׁקַל
Transliteration
šāqal
Pronunciation
shaw-kal'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
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TWOT Reference: 2454

Strong’s Definitions

שָׁקַל shâqal, shaw-kal'; a primitive root; to suspend or poise (especially in trade):—pay, receive(-r), spend, × throughly, weigh.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 22x

The KJV translates Strong's H8254 in the following manner: weigh (14x), pay (4x), throughly (1x), receive (1x), receiver (1x), spend (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 22x
The KJV translates Strong's H8254 in the following manner: weigh (14x), pay (4x), throughly (1x), receive (1x), receiver (1x), spend (1x).

  1. to weigh, weigh out, pay out

    1. (Qal)

      1. to weigh

      2. to weigh out (a price)

      3. of grief (fig)

    2. (Niphal)

      1. to be weighed

      2. to be weighed out

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
שָׁקַל shâqal, shaw-kal'; a primitive root; to suspend or poise (especially in trade):—pay, receive(-r), spend, × throughly, weigh.
STRONGS H8254: Abbreviations
† שָׁקַל verb weigh (Late Hebrew id.; Arabic bdb105301 be heavy, bdb105302 heaviness, weight, bdb105303 load, Old Aramaic תקל weigh, Aramaic תְּקַל, bdb105304 (weigh), pay, תִּקְלָא shekel, but also (Old Aramaic, Zinjirli) שקל, שקלן Lzb382; bdb105305 lift up; Assyrian šaḳâlu, weigh, šiḳlu (apparently) = שֶׁקֶל; Ethiopic bdb105306 hand up, weigh; Phoenician משקל weight; compare Frä202, also Greek σίγλος (Greek Version of the LXX σίκλος) LagM ii. 357 LewyFramdw. 118 f.; — on connection of meanings compare weigh transitive and intransitive = German wägen, wiegen, also heave, heavy, heft (= weight, obs. or colloq.)); —
Qal Perfect 3rd person masculine singular שׁ׳ 2 Samuel 14:26; Isaiah 40:12; Imperfect 3rd person masculine singular יִשְׁקִל Exodus 22:16, suffix יִשְׁקְלֵ֫נִי Job 31:6, etc.; Infinitive absolute שָׁקוֺל Job 6:2; construct לִשְׁקוֺל Esther 4:7; Participle active שֹׁקֵל Isaiah 33:18; 2 Samuel 18:12 read perhaps passive שָׁקֻל, see infra, —
1. weigh, human subject, accusative of thing 2 Samuel 14:26; Isaiah 46:6 (ב of scale); figurative, י׳ subject Isaiah 40:12 also (accusative of person) Job 31:6 (both with ב of scale); compare Infinitive absolute below Niph.; weigh precious metals intrusted to one, ל person Ezra 8:25, עַליָֿדָם Ezra 8:26, accusative of thing omitted Ezra 8:29 (לִפְנֵי of superior).
2. weigh out a price (i.e. pay): accusative of silver Exodus 22:16 (E), 1 Kings 20:39; Zechariah 11:12; Jeremiah 32:10 (ב of scale), Isaiah 55:2 (with ב, in exchange for); +ל person Jeremiah 32:9; Genesis 23:16 (P); + עַל־כַּפַּי 2 Samuel 18:12 (read perhaps שָׁקֻל, so We KitKau Bu Buhl), עַליְֿדֵי פ׳ Esther 3:9, עַלגִּֿנְזֵי הַמֶּלֶךְ Esther 4:7
Niph. be weighed:
1. Perfect 3rd person masculine singular נִשְׁקַל, subject of thing Ezra 8:33 (passive of Qal Ezra 8:25f.); Imperfect 3rd person masculine singular figurative (+ Qal Infinitive absolute), לוּ שָׁקוֺל יִשָּׁקֵל כַּעְשִׂי Job 6:2.
2. be weighted out, as price, Job 28:15.

See related Aramaic BDB entry H8625.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

23:16

Exodus

22:16; 22:16

2 Samuel

14:26; 14:26; 18:12; 18:12

1 Kings

20:39

Ezra

8:25; 8:25; 8:26; 8:29; 8:33

Esther

3:9; 4:7; 4:7

Job

6:2; 6:2; 28:15; 31:6; 31:6

Isaiah

33:18; 40:12; 40:12; 46:6; 55:2

Jeremiah

32:9; 32:10

Zechariah

11:12

H8254

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Strong's Number H8254 matches the Hebrew שָׁקַל (šāqal),
which occurs 23 times in 21 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:16 - And Abraham took note of the price fixed by Ephron in the hearing of the children of Heth, and gave him four hundred shekels in current money.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:17

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:17 - If her father will not give her to him on any account, he will have to give the regular payment for virgins.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:26 - And when he had his hair cut, (which he did at the end of every year, because of the weight of his hair;) the weight of the hair was two hundred shekels by the king's weight.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:12 - And the man said to Joab, Even if you gave me a thousand bits of silver, I would not put out my hand against the king's son: for in our hearing the king gave orders to you and Abishai and Ittai, saying, Take care that the young man Absalom is not touched.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:39

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:39 - And when the king went by, crying out to him he said, Your servant went out into the fight; and a man came out to me with another man and said, Keep this man: if by any chance he gets away, your life will be the price of his life, or you will have to give a talent of silver in payment.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:25

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:25 - And gave to them by weight the silver and the gold and the vessels, all the offering for the house of our God which the king and his wise men and his captains and all Israel there present had given:

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:26

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:26 - Measuring into their hands six hundred and fifty talents of silver, and silver vessels, a hundred talents' weight, and a hundred talents of gold,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:29

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:29 - Take care of them and keep them, till you put them on the scales before the chiefs of the priests and the Levites and the chiefs of the families of Israel, in Jerusalem, in the rooms of the house of the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:33

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:33 - And on the fourth day, the silver and the gold and the vessels were measured out by weight in the house of our God into the hands 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;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:9 - If it is the king's pleasure, let a statement ordering their destruction be put in writing: and I will give to those responsible for the king's business, ten thousand talents of silver for the king's store-house.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:7 - And Mordecai gave him an account of what had taken place, and of the amount of money which Haman had said he would put into the king's store for the destruction of the Jews.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:2 - If only my passion might be measured, and put into the scales against my trouble!

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:15 - Gold may not be given for it, or a weight of silver in payment for it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:6 - (Let me be measured in upright scales, and let God see my righteousness:)

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:18

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:18 - Your heart will give thought to the cause of your fear: where is the scribe, where is he who made a record of the payments, where is he by whom the towers were numbered?

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:12

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:12 - In the hollow of whose hand have the waters been measured? and who is able to take the heavens in his stretched-out fingers? who has got together the dust of the earth in a measure? who has taken the weight of the mountains, or put the hills into the scales?

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 46:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 46:6 - As for those who take gold out of a bag, and put silver in the scales, they give payment to a gold-worker, to make it into a god; they go down on their faces and give it worship.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 55:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 55:2 - Why do you give your money for what is not bread, and the fruit of your work for what will not give you pleasure? Give ear to me, so that your food may be good, and you may have the best in full measure.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:9 - So I got for a price the property in Anathoth from Hanamel, the son of my father's brother, and gave him the money, seventeen shekels of silver;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:10 - And I put it in writing, stamping it with my stamp, and I took witnesses and put the money into the scales.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 11:12

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 11:12 - And I said to them, If it seems good to you, give me my payment; and if not, do not give it. So they gave me my payment by weight, thirty shekels of silver.
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