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Shekel
//ˈʃɛkəl// noun, slang
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A currency unit of both ancient and modern Israel.
"So David bought the threshingfloor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver."
- 2 the basic unit of money in Israel wordnet
- 3 Money. slang
"Her gownlet cost five hundred beans; / Her furs, four figures in a row; / Her hat removed from papa's jeans / A hundred shekels more or so."
- 4 An ancient unit of weight equivalent to one-fiftieth of a mina. historical
"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;"
Etymology
From Hebrew שֶׁקֶל (shékel, “shekel”), from שָׁקַל (shakál, “to weigh”), from Akkadian 𒂅 (šiqlum).
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