Shekel

//ˈʃɛkəl//

"Shekel" in a Sentence (8 examples)

The symbol used for the Israeli Shekel is "₪".

Do you have a shekel?

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

"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 have been greater men than he."

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.

[…] after the 1887-9 campaign was the great refuge of the destitute who, as they could not hope to rake in a breast-full of medals and decorations, expected, at any rate, to amass a good few shekels.

The mob had filched anything that might earn them a shekel or two.

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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