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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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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 - Avraham listened to `Efron. Avraham weighed to `Efron the silver which he had named in the audience of the children of Het, four hundred shekels of silver, according to the current merchants' standard.

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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 according to the dowry of virgins.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 14:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:26 - When he cut the hair of his head (now it was at every year's end that he cut it; because it was heavy on him, therefore he cut it); he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels, after the king's weight.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:12 - The man said to Yo'av, Though I should receive a thousand pieces of silver in my hand, I still wouldn't put forth my hand against the king's son; for in our hearing the king charged you and Avishai and Ittai, saying, Beware that none touch the young man Avshalom.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 20:39

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:39 - As the king passed by, he cried to the king; and he said, Your servant went out into the midst of the battle; and, behold, a man turned aside, and brought a man to me, and said, Keep this man: if by any means he be missing, then shall your life be for his life, or else you shall pay a talent of silver.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 8:25

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:25 - and weighed to them the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, even the offering for the house of our God, which the king, and his counselors, and his princes, and all Yisra'el there present, had offered:

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 8:26

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:26 - I weighed into their hand six hundred fifty talents of silver, and silver vessels one hundred talents; of gold one hundred talents;

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 8:29

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:29 - Watch you, and keep them, until you weigh them before the chiefs of the Kohanim and the Levites, and the princes of the fathers' houses of Yisra'el, at Yerushalayim, in 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 the silver and the gold and the vessels were weighed in the house of our God into the hand of Meremot the son of Uriyah the Kohen; and with him was El`azar the son of Pinechas; and with them was Yozavad the son of Yeshua, and No`adyah the son of Binnui, the Levite;

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 3:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:9 - If it please the king, let it be written that they be destroyed: and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver into the hands of those who have the charge of the king's business, to bring it into the king's treasuries.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 4:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:7 - Mordekhai told him of all that had happened to him, and the exact sum of the money that Haman had promised to pay to the king's treasuries for the Yehudim, to destroy them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 6:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:2 - "Oh that my anguish 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 can't be gotten for gold, Neither shall silver be weighed for its price.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 31:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:6 - (Let me be weighed in an even balance, That God may know my integrity);

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 33:18

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:18 - Your heart shall 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 meted out the sky with the span, and comprehended the dust of the eretz 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 - Some pour out gold from the bag, and weigh silver in the balance. They hire a goldsmith, and he makes it a god. They fall down -- yes, they worship.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 55:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 55:2 - Why do you spend money for that which is not bread? and your labor for that which doesn't satisfy? listen diligently to me, and eat you that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 32:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:9 - I bought the field that was in `Anatot of Hanam'el my uncle's son, and weighed him the money, even seventeen shekels of silver.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 32:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:10 - I subscribed the deed, and sealed it, and called witnesses, and weighed him the money in the balances.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 11:12

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 11:12 - I said to them, "If you think it best, give me my wages; and if not, keep them." So they weighed for my wages thirty pieces of silver.
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