# שָׁקַל (shaqal) Israeli respelling: sha-qal. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew. Strong’s H8254. 21 Old Testament occurrences. to suspend or poise (especially in trade) King James renderings: pay, receive(-r), spend, [idiom] throughly, weigh. Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/shaqal-h8254 ## Occurrences - [Genesis 23:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/23/16) — And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver, which he had named in the audience of the sons of Heth, four h… - [Exodus 22:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/22/17) — If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins. - [2 Samuel 14:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/14/26) — And when he polled his head, (for it was at every year’s end that he polled it: because the hair was heavy on him, therefore he polled it:)… - [2 Samuel 18:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/18/12) — And the man said unto Joab, Though I should receive a thousand shekels of silver in mine hand, yet would I not put forth mine hand against… - [1 Kings 20:39](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/20/39) — And as the king passed by, he cried unto the king: and he said, Thy servant went out into the midst of the battle; and, behold, a man turne… - [Ezra 8:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezra/8/25) — And weighed unto them the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, even the offering of the house of our God, which the king, and his counsel… - [Ezra 8:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezra/8/26) — I even weighed unto their hand six hundred and fifty talents of silver, and silver vessels an hundred talents, and of gold an hundred talen… - [Ezra 8:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezra/8/29) — Watch ye, and keep them, until ye weigh them before the chief of the priests and the Levites, and chief of the fathers of Israel, at Jerusa… - [Ezra 8:33](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezra/8/33) — Now on the fourth day was the silver and the gold and the vessels weighed in the house of our God by the hand of Meremoth the son of Uriah… - [Esther 3:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/esther/3/9) — If it please the king, let it be written that they may be destroyed: and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver to the hands of those th… - [Esther 4:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/esther/4/7) — And Mordecai told him of all that had happened unto him, and of the sum of the money that Haman had promised to pay to the king’s treasurie… - [Job 6:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/6/2) — Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together! - [Job 28:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/28/15) — It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof. - [Job 31:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/31/6) — Let me be weighed in an even balance that God may know mine integrity. - [Isaiah 33:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/33/18) — Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where is the scribe? where is the receiver? where is he that counted the towers? - [Isaiah 40:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/40/12) — Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a mea… - [Isaiah 46:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/46/6) — They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance, and hire a goldsmith; and he maketh it a god: they fall down, yea, they w… - [Isaiah 55:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/55/2) — Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat… - [Jeremiah 32:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/32/9) — And I bought the field of Hanameel my uncle’s son, that was in Anathoth, and weighed him the money, even seventeen shekels of silver. - [Jeremiah 32:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/32/10) — And I subscribed the evidence, and sealed it, and took witnesses, and weighed him the money in the balances. - [Zechariah 11:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zechariah/11/12) — And I said unto them, If ye think good, give me my price; and if not, forbear. So they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver.