# שֶׁקֶל (sheqel)

Israeli respelling: she-qel. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H8255. 54 Old Testament occurrences.

probably a weight; used as a commercial standard

King James renderings: shekel.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/sheqel-h8255

## Occurrences

- [Genesis 23:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/23/15) — My lord, hearken unto me: the land is worth four hundred shekels of silver; what is that betwixt me and thee? bury therefore thy dead.
- [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 21:32](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/21/32) — If the ox shall push a manservant or a maidservant; he shall give unto their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.
- [Exodus 30:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/30/13) — This they shall give, every one that passeth among them that are numbered, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary: (a shekel is tw…
- [Exodus 30:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/30/15) — The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel, when they give an offering unto the LORD, to make an ato…
- [Exodus 30:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/30/24) — And of cassia five hundred shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, and of oil olive an hin:
- [Exodus 38:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/38/24) — All the gold that was occupied for the work in all the work of the holy place, even the gold of the offering, was twenty and nine talents,…
- [Exodus 38:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/38/25) — And the silver of them that were numbered of the congregation was an hundred talents, and a thousand seven hundred and threescore and fifte…
- [Exodus 38:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/38/26) — A bekah for every man, that is, half a shekel, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for every one that went to be numbered, from twenty years…
- [Exodus 38:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/38/29) — And the brass of the offering was seventy talents, and two thousand and four hundred shekels.
- [Leviticus 5:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/5/15) — If a soul commit a trespass, and sin through ignorance, in the holy things of the LORD; then he shall bring for his trespass unto the LORD…
- [Leviticus 27:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/27/3) — And thy estimation shall be of the male from twenty years old even unto sixty years old, even thy estimation shall be fifty shekels of silv…
- [Leviticus 27:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/27/4) — And if it be a female, then thy estimation shall be thirty shekels.
- [Leviticus 27:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/27/5) — And if it be from five years old even unto twenty years old, then thy estimation shall be of the male twenty shekels, and for the female te…
- [Leviticus 27:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/27/6) — And if it be from a month old even unto five years old, then thy estimation shall be of the male five shekels of silver, and for the female…
- [Leviticus 27:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/27/7) — And if it be from sixty years old and above; if it be a male, then thy estimation shall be fifteen shekels, and for the female ten shekels.
- [Leviticus 27:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/27/16) — And if a man shall sanctify unto the LORD some part of a field of his possession, then thy estimation shall be according to the seed thereo…
- [Leviticus 27:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/27/25) — And all thy estimations shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs shall be the shekel.
- [Numbers 3:47](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/3/47) — Thou shalt even take five shekels apiece by the poll, after the shekel of the sanctuary shalt thou take them: (the shekel is twenty gerahs:)
- [Numbers 3:50](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/3/50) — Of the firstborn of the children of Israel took he the money; a thousand three hundred and threescore and five shekels, after the shekel of…
- [Numbers 7:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/7/13) — And his offering was one silver charger, the weight thereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after th…
- [Numbers 7:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/7/19) — He offered for his offering one silver charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, a…
- [Numbers 7:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/7/25) — His offering was one silver charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the sh…
- [Numbers 7:31](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/7/31) — His offering was one silver charger of the weight of an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of…
- [Numbers 7:37](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/7/37) — His offering was one silver charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the sh…
- [Numbers 7:43](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/7/43) — His offering was one silver charger of the weight of an hundred and thirty shekels, a silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of t…
- [Numbers 7:49](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/7/49) — His offering was one silver charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the sh…
- [Numbers 7:55](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/7/55) — His offering was one silver charger of the weight of an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of…
- [Numbers 7:61](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/7/61) — His offering was one silver charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the sh…
- [Numbers 7:67](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/7/67) — His offering was one silver charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the sh…
- [Numbers 7:73](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/7/73) — His offering was one silver charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the sh…
- [Numbers 7:79](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/7/79) — His offering was one silver charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the sh…
- [Numbers 7:85](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/7/85) — Each charger of silver weighing an hundred and thirty shekels, each bowl seventy: all the silver vessels weighed two thousand and four hund…
- [Numbers 7:86](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/7/86) — The golden spoons were twelve, full of incense, weighing ten shekels apiece, after the shekel of the sanctuary: all the gold of the spoons…
- [Numbers 18:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/18/16) — And those that are to be redeemed from a month old shalt thou redeem, according to thine estimation, for the money of five shekels, after t…
- [Numbers 31:52](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/31/52) — And all the gold of the offering that they offered up to the LORD, of the captains of thousands, and of the captains of hundreds, was sixte…
- [Joshua 7:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/7/21) — When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, th…
- [1 Samuel 9:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/9/8) — And the servant answered Saul again, and said, Behold, I have here at hand the fourth part of a shekel of silver: that will I give to the m…
- [1 Samuel 17:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/17/5) — And he had an helmet of brass upon his head, and he was armed with a coat of mail; and the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of…
- [1 Samuel 17:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/17/7) — And the staff of his spear was like a weaver’s beam; and his spear’s head weighed six hundred shekels of iron: and one bearing a shield wen…
- [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 24:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/24/24) — And the king said unto Araunah, Nay; but I will surely buy it of thee at a price: neither will I offer burnt offerings unto the LORD my God…
- [2 Kings 7:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/7/1) — Then Elisha said, Hear ye the word of the LORD; Thus saith the LORD, To morrow about this time shall a measure of fine flour be sold for a…
- [2 Kings 7:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/7/16) — And the people went out, and spoiled the tents of the Syrians. So a measure of fine flour was sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley…
- [2 Kings 7:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/7/18) — And it came to pass as the man of God had spoken to the king, saying, Two measures of barley for a shekel, and a measure of fine flour for…
- [2 Kings 15:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/15/20) — And Menahem exacted the money of Israel, even of all the mighty men of wealth, of each man fifty shekels of silver, to give to the king of…
- [1 Chronicles 21:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/21/25) — So David gave to Ornan for the place six hundred shekels of gold by weight.
- [2 Chronicles 3:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/3/9) — And the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid the upper chambers with gold.
- [Nehemiah 5:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/5/15) — But the former governors that had been before me were chargeable unto the people, and had taken of them bread and wine, beside forty shekel…
- [Nehemiah 10:32](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/10/32) — Also we made ordinances for us, to charge ourselves yearly with the third part of a shekel for the service of the house of our God;
- [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.
- [Ezekiel 4:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/4/10) — And thy meat which thou shalt eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time shalt thou eat it.
- [Ezekiel 45:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/45/12) — And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs: twenty shekels, five and twenty shekels, fifteen shekels, shall be your maneh.
- [Amos 8:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/amos/8/5) — Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and th…