Meaning of shekel | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A currency unit of both ancient and modern Israel.
2. Money.
   slang
3. An ancient unit of weight equivalent to one-fiftieth of a mina.
   historical

Equivalents

Examples

“So David bought the threshingfloor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.”

“"Beauty is naught to him, because there are lips more honey-sweet; and wealth is naught, because others can weigh him down with heavier shekels; and fame is naught, because there have been greater men than he."”

“Her gownlet cost five hundred beans; / Her furs, four figures in a row; / Her hat removed from papa's jeans / A hundred shekels more or so.”

“[…] after the 1887-9 campaign was the great refuge of the destitute who, as they could not hope to rake in a breast-full of medals and decorations, expected, at any rate, to amass a good few shekels.”

“The mob had filched anything that might earn them a shekel or two.”

“And it came to pass, as the camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden earring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold;”

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