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Lexicon :: Strong's H8254 - šāqal

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שָׁקַל
Transliteration
šāqal
Pronunciation
shaw-kal'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
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TWOT Reference: 2454

Strong’s Definitions

שָׁקַל shâqal, shaw-kal'; a primitive root; to suspend or poise (especially in trade):—pay, receive(-r), spend, × throughly, weigh.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 22x

The KJV translates Strong's H8254 in the following manner: weigh (14x), pay (4x), throughly (1x), receive (1x), receiver (1x), spend (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 22x
The KJV translates Strong's H8254 in the following manner: weigh (14x), pay (4x), throughly (1x), receive (1x), receiver (1x), spend (1x).

  1. to weigh, weigh out, pay out

    1. (Qal)

      1. to weigh

      2. to weigh out (a price)

      3. of grief (fig)

    2. (Niphal)

      1. to be weighed

      2. to be weighed out

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
שָׁקַל shâqal, shaw-kal'; a primitive root; to suspend or poise (especially in trade):—pay, receive(-r), spend, × throughly, weigh.
STRONGS H8254: Abbreviations
† שָׁקַל verb weigh (Late Hebrew id.; Arabic bdb105301 be heavy, bdb105302 heaviness, weight, bdb105303 load, Old Aramaic תקל weigh, Aramaic תְּקַל, bdb105304 (weigh), pay, תִּקְלָא shekel, but also (Old Aramaic, Zinjirli) שקל, שקלן Lzb382; bdb105305 lift up; Assyrian šaḳâlu, weigh, šiḳlu (apparently) = שֶׁקֶל; Ethiopic bdb105306 hand up, weigh; Phoenician משקל weight; compare Frä202, also Greek σίγλος (Greek Version of the LXX σίκλος) LagM ii. 357 LewyFramdw. 118 f.; — on connection of meanings compare weigh transitive and intransitive = German wägen, wiegen, also heave, heavy, heft (= weight, obs. or colloq.)); —
Qal Perfect 3rd person masculine singular שׁ׳ 2 Samuel 14:26; Isaiah 40:12; Imperfect 3rd person masculine singular יִשְׁקִל Exodus 22:16, suffix יִשְׁקְלֵ֫נִי Job 31:6, etc.; Infinitive absolute שָׁקוֺל Job 6:2; construct לִשְׁקוֺל Esther 4:7; Participle active שֹׁקֵל Isaiah 33:18; 2 Samuel 18:12 read perhaps passive שָׁקֻל, see infra, —
1. weigh, human subject, accusative of thing 2 Samuel 14:26; Isaiah 46:6 (ב of scale); figurative, י׳ subject Isaiah 40:12 also (accusative of person) Job 31:6 (both with ב of scale); compare Infinitive absolute below Niph.; weigh precious metals intrusted to one, ל person Ezra 8:25, עַליָֿדָם Ezra 8:26, accusative of thing omitted Ezra 8:29 (לִפְנֵי of superior).
2. weigh out a price (i.e. pay): accusative of silver Exodus 22:16 (E), 1 Kings 20:39; Zechariah 11:12; Jeremiah 32:10 (ב of scale), Isaiah 55:2 (with ב, in exchange for); +ל person Jeremiah 32:9; Genesis 23:16 (P); + עַל־כַּפַּי 2 Samuel 18:12 (read perhaps שָׁקֻל, so We KitKau Bu Buhl), עַליְֿדֵי פ׳ Esther 3:9, עַלגִּֿנְזֵי הַמֶּלֶךְ Esther 4:7
Niph. be weighed:
1. Perfect 3rd person masculine singular נִשְׁקַל, subject of thing Ezra 8:33 (passive of Qal Ezra 8:25f.); Imperfect 3rd person masculine singular figurative (+ Qal Infinitive absolute), לוּ שָׁקוֺל יִשָּׁקֵל כַּעְשִׂי Job 6:2.
2. be weighted out, as price, Job 28:15.

See related Aramaic BDB entry H8625.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

23:16

Exodus

22:16; 22:16

2 Samuel

14:26; 14:26; 18:12; 18:12

1 Kings

20:39

Ezra

8:25; 8:25; 8:26; 8:29; 8:33

Esther

3:9; 4:7; 4:7

Job

6:2; 6:2; 28:15; 31:6; 31:6

Isaiah

33:18; 40:12; 40:12; 46:6; 55:2

Jeremiah

32:9; 32:10

Zechariah

11:12

H8254

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Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H8254 matches the Hebrew שָׁקַל (šāqal),
which occurs 23 times in 21 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 23:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:16 - Abraham listened to Ephron, and Abraham weighed out for Ephron the silver that he had named in the hearing of the Hittites, four hundred shekels of silver, according to the weights current among the merchants.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 22:17

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:17 - If her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money equal to the bride-price for virgins.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 14:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:26 - And when he cut the hair of his head (for at the end of every year he used to cut it; when it was heavy on him, he cut it), he weighed the hair of his head, two hundred shekels[fn] by the king’s weight.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 18:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:12 - But the man said to Joab, “Even if I felt in my hand the weight of a thousand pieces of silver, I would not reach out my hand against the king’s son, for in our hearing the king commanded you and Abishai and Ittai, ‘For my sake protect the young man Absalom.’

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 20:39

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:39 - And as the king passed, he cried to the king and said, “Your servant went out into the midst of the battle, and behold, a soldier turned and brought a man to me and said, ‘Guard this man; if by any means he is missing, your life shall be for his life, or else you shall pay a talent[fn] of silver.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 8:25

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:25 - And I weighed out to them the silver and the gold and the vessels, the offering for the house of our God that the king and his counselors and his lords and all Israel there present had offered.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 8:26

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:26 - I weighed out into their hand 650 talents[fn] of silver, and silver vessels worth 200 talents,[fn] and 100 talents of gold,

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 8:29

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:29 - Guard them and keep them until you weigh them before the chief priests and the Levites and the heads of fathers’ houses in Israel at Jerusalem, within the chambers of the house of the LORD.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 8:33

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:33 - On the fourth day, within the house of our God, the silver and the gold and the vessels were weighed into the hands of Meremoth the priest, son of Uriah, and with him was Eleazar the son of Phinehas, and with them were the Levites, Jozabad the son of Jeshua and Noadiah the son of Binnui.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 3:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:9 - If it please the king, let it be decreed that they be destroyed, and I will pay 10,000 talents[fn] of silver into the hands of those who have charge of the king’s business, that they may put it into the king’s treasuries.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 4:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:7 - and Mordecai told him all that had happened to him, and the exact sum of money that Haman had promised to pay into the king’s treasuries for the destruction of the Jews.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 6:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:2 - “Oh that my vexation were weighed,
and all my calamity laid in the balances!

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 28:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:15 - It cannot be bought for gold,
and silver cannot be weighed as its price.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 31:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:6 - (Let me be weighed in a just balance,
and let God know my integrity!)

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 33:18

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:18 - Your heart will muse on the terror:
“Where is he who counted, where is he who weighed the tribute?
Where is he who counted the towers?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 40:12

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:12 - Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand
and marked off the heavens with a span,
enclosed the dust of the earth in a measure
and weighed the mountains in scales
and the hills in a balance?

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 46:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 46:6 - Those who lavish gold from the purse,
and weigh out silver in the scales,
hire a goldsmith, and he makes it into a god;
then they fall down and worship!

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 55:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 55:2 - Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread,
and your labor for that which does not satisfy?
Listen diligently to me, and eat what is good,
and delight yourselves in rich food.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 32:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:9 - “And I bought the field at Anathoth from Hanamel my cousin, and weighed out the money to him, seventeen shekels of silver.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 32:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:10 - I signed the deed, sealed it, got witnesses, and weighed the money on scales.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 11:12

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 11:12 - Then I said to them, “If it seems good to you, give me my wages; but if not, keep them.” And they weighed out as my wages thirty pieces of silver.
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