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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 - So Abraham heard Ephron; and Abraham weighed H8254 out H8254 for Ephron the silver which he had named in the [fn]hearing of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, [fn]commercial standard.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 22:17

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:17 - “If her father absolutely refuses to give her to him, he shall [fn]pay H8254 money equal to the dowry for virgins.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 14:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:26 - When he shaved the hair of his head (and it was at the end of every year that he shaved it, for it was heavy on him so he shaved it), he weighed H8254 the hair of his head at [fn]200 shekels by the king’s weight.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 18:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:12 - So the man said to Joab, “Even if I should receive H8254 one thousand pieces of silver in my hand, I would not send forth my hand against the king’s son; for in our hearing the king commanded you and Abishai and Ittai, saying, ‘[fn]Keep for me the young man Absalom!’

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 20:39

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:39 - Now it happened that as the king was passing by, he cried out to the king and 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, ‘Guard this man; if for any reason he is missing, then your life shall be for his life, or else you shall pay H8254 a [fn]talent of silver.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 8:25

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:25 - and I weighed H8254 out H8254 to them the silver, the gold, and the utensils, the contribution for the house of our God which the king and his counselors and his princes and all Israel present there had offered.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 8:26

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:26 - Thus I weighed H8254 into their hands [fn]650 talents of silver, and silver utensils worth 100 talents, and 100 gold talents,

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 8:29

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:29 - “Watch and keep them until you weigh H8254 them before the officials of the priests, the Levites and the officials of the fathers’ households of Israel at Jerusalem, in the chambers of the house of Yahweh.”

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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 utensils were weighed H8254 out H8254 in the house of our God into the hand of Meremoth the son of Uriah the priest, 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 seems good to the king, let it be written down that they should perish, and I will pay H8254 [fn]10,000 talents of silver into the hands of those who do this work, to bring 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 amount of silver that Haman had promised to pay H8254 to the king’s treasuries to cause the Jews to perish.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 6:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:2 -

“Oh that my vexation were actually H8254 weighed H8254

And laid in the balances together with my destruction!

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 28:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:15 -

“Pure gold cannot be given in place of it,

Nor can silver be weighed H8254 as its price.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 31:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:6 -

Let Him weigh H8254 me with [fn]just scales,

And let God know my integrity.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 33:18

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:18 -

Your heart will meditate on terror:

“Where is he who counts?

Where is he who weighs H8254?

Where is he who counts the towers?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 40:12

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:12 -

Who has measured the [fn]waters in the hollow of His hand,

And [fn]encompassed the heavens by the [fn]span,

And [fn]calculated the dust of the earth by the measure,

And weighed H8254 the mountains in a balance

And the hills in a pair of scales?

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 46:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 46:6 -

“Those who lavish gold from the purse

And weigh H8254 silver on the scale,

They hire a goldsmith, and he makes it into a god;

They fall down, indeed they worship it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 55:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 55:2 -

“Why do you [fn]spend H8254 money for what is not bread,

And your wages for what does not satisfy?

Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good,

And delight your soul in richness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 32:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:9 -

“I bought the field which was at Anathoth from Hanamel my uncle’s son, and I weighed H8254 out H8254 the silver for him, seventeen [fn]shekels of silver.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 32:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:10 - “And I [fn]signed and sealed the deed and called in witnesses and weighed H8254 out H8254 the silver on the scales.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 11:12

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 11:12 - And I said to them, “If it is good in your sight, give me my wages; but if not, [fn]never mind!” So they weighed H8254 out H8254 thirty [fn]shekels of silver as my wages.
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