From en.wiktionary.org:
** English
[2006]
*** Alternative forms
- [en]
*** Etymology
From [en], from [he], from [en].
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Noun
[s]
1. A currency unit of both ancient and modern Israel .
2. * 1769 , Benjamin Blayney (Ed.), _Basa Sunda: Bible (King James)/2 Samuel_ (2 Samuel 24:24)
3. *: So David bought the threshingfloor and the oxen for fifty SHEKELS of silver.
4. * [passage="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."]
5. [en] Money .
6. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1914 | title=The Judge | volume=66
|passage=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.}}
1. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1924 | author=James Alban Wilson | title=Sport and Service in Assam and Elsewhere | page=288
|passage=[...] 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.}}
1. * {{ quote-text | en | year=2018 | author=Gerry Woodhouse | title=Lord Damnus: Conqueror of the World
|passage=The mob had filched anything that might earn them a SHEKEL or two.}}
1. [en] An ancient unit of weight equivalent to one-fiftieth of a mina .
2. * 1769 , Benjamin Blayney (Ed.), _Basa Sunda: Bible (King James)/Genesis_ (Genesis 24:22)
3. *: 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;
**** Derived terms
- [en]
**** Translations
[currency unit in Israel]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Korean: [ko]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Maori: [mi]
- Marathi: [mr]
- Navajo: [nv]
- Persian: [fa]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Spanish: [es]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Ugaritic: [uga]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
- Yiddish: [yi]
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[ancient unit of weight]
- Akkadian: [akk]
- Aramaic:
- Armenian: [hy]
- Catalan: [ca]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Greek:
- Hebrew: [he]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Italian: [it]
- Latin: [la]
- Maori: [mi]
- Marathi: [mr]
- Phoenician: [phn]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru]
- Spanish: [es]
- Sumerian: [sux]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Ugaritic: [uga]
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*** See also
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*** Further reading
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[en]
** French
*** Alternative forms
- [fr]
*** Etymology
From [fr], from [he].
*** Pronunciation
- [shékel]
- [fr]
*** Noun
[m]
1. [en] [unit of currency]
[fr]
** Portuguese
*** Noun
[m]
1. sheqel [currency unit in Israel]