H8254 שָׁקַל
Strong's Hebrew Concordance · 22 KJV occurrences
שָׁקַל
shâqal · shaw-kal'
Definition
to suspend or poise (especially in trade)
KJV Renderings
pay, receive(-r), spend, [idiom] throughly, weigh.
Derivation / Etymology
a primitive root;
Sample KJV Verses (8 of 22)
- Genesis 23:16And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver, which he had named in the audience of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant.
- 2 Samuel 14:26And 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:) he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels after the king’s weight.
- Ezra 8:25And 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 counsellors, and his lords, and all Israel there present, had offered:
- 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 the priest; and with him was Eleazar the son of Phinehas; and with them was Jozabad the son of Jeshua, and Noadiah the son of Binnui, Levites;
- Job 6:2Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!
- Job 28:15It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof.
- 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 measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
- Jeremiah 32:9And I bought the field of Hanameel my uncle’s son, that was in Anathoth, and weighed him the money, even seventeen shekels of silver.