8255 - sheqel

Strong's Concordance

Original word: שֶׁ֫קֶל
Transliteration: sheqel
Definition (short): shekels
Definition (full): a weight, a commercial standard

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin: from shaqal
Definition: (a measure of weight) shekel
NASB Translation: shekel (42), shekels (46).
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From shaqal; probably a weight; used as a commercial standard -- shekel.

see HEBREW shaqal

KJV: My lord, hearken unto me: the land is worth four hundred shekels of silver; what is that betwixt me and thee? bury therefore thy dead.
NASB: "My lord, listen to me; a piece of land worth four hundred shekels of silver, what is that between me and you? So bury your dead."
KJV: And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver, which he had named in the audience of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant.
NASB: Abraham listened to Ephron; and Abraham weighed out for Ephron the silver which he had named in the hearing of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, commercial standard.
KJV: If the ox shall push a manservant or a maidservant; he shall give unto their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.
NASB: "If the ox gores a male or female slave, the owner shall give his or her master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.
KJV: This they shall give, every one that passeth among them that are numbered, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary: (a shekel is twenty gerahs:) an half shekel shall be the offering of the LORD.
NASB: "This is what everyone who is numbered shall give: half a shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel is twenty gerahs), half a shekel as a contribution to the LORD.