Shekel

//ˈʃɛkəl// noun, slang

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A currency unit of both ancient and modern Israel.

    "So David bought the threshingfloor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver."

  2. 2
    the basic unit of money in Israel wordnet
  3. 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. 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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