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Definition of Shekel
1. Noun. The basic unit of money in Israel.
Definition of Shekel
1. n. An ancient weight and coin used by the Jews and by other nations of the same stock.
Definition of Shekel
1. Noun. A currency unit of both ancient and modern Israel. ¹
2. Noun. (context: informal) money. ¹
3. Noun. An ancient unit of weight equivalent to one-fiftieth of a mina. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Shekel
1. an ancient unit of weight and money [n SHEKELS or SHEKELIM or SHEKALIM]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shekel
Literary usage of Shekel
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1910)
"From this it resulted that 1 standard gold shekel = 13J standard silver shekels
... If the gold Ratio of shekel were made the base of coin- Gold to parison, ..."
2. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1841)
"Besides, many of the sacred vessels restored to them by Cyrus were probably of
known weight, and these would determine the true standard of the shekel. ..."
3. The Englishman's Hebrew and Chaldee Concordance of the Old Testament by George V. Wigram (1866)
"25. threescore and fifteen shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary : 26.A bekah
for every man, (that is), a shekel, after the shekel nf the sanctuary, ..."
4. Dictionary of the Bible: Comprising Its Antiquities, Biography, Geography by William Smith, Horatio Balch Hackett, Ezra Abbot (1872)
"The determination of the standard weight of the shekel, which, be it remembered,
... The shekel corresponds almost exactly to the tetra- drachm nr ..."
5. Encyclopædia Biblica: A Critical Dictionary of the Literary Political and by Thomas Kelly Cheyne, John Sutherland Black (1903)
"The shekel was the same in both. Further, payments to the royal treasury in
Babylonia were calculated on a slightly higher scale (the ' royal norm') than ..."
6. Dr. William Smith's Dictionary of the Bible: Comprising Its Antiquities by William George Smith, Horatio Balch Hackett, Ezra Abbot (1888)
"The average weight of the silver coins is about S20 grains troy for the shekel,
and 110 for the half shekel.0 The name, from ^"^' shows that the shekel was ..."
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