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שָׁקַל H8254

H8254 is the Hebrew word שָׁקַל, transliterated shâqal and said shaw-kal'. The King James Version most often renders it weighed.

Word: שָׁקַלTransliteration: shâqalSaid: shaw-kal'Language: HebrewIn the KJV: 21 verses

What it means

to suspend or poise (especially in trade).

Where it comes from

a primitive root.

How the King James Version translates it

Across 22 tagged occurrences, counted from this edition's word index.

weighed 11×pay 3×should receive 1×or else thou shalt pay 1×even weighed 1×until ye weigh 1×throughly 1×where is the receiver 1×weigh 1×wherefore do ye spend 1×

Strong's own list of renderings: pay, receive(-r), spend, [idiom] throughly, weigh.

Verses using שָׁקַל

All 21 verses, quoted in full.

Genesis 23:16 · 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.

Exodus 22:17 · KJV

If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.

2 Samuel 14:26 · KJV

And when he polled his head, (for it was at every year’s end that he polled it: because the hair was heavy on him, therefore he polled it:) he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels after the king’s weight.

2 Samuel 18:12 · KJV

And the man said unto Joab, Though I should receive a thousand shekels of silver in mine hand, yet would I not put forth mine hand against the king’s son: for in our hearing the king charged thee and Abishai and Ittai, saying, Beware that none touch the young man Absalom.

1 Kings 20:39 · KJV

And as the king passed by, he cried unto the king: and he said, Thy servant went out into the midst of the battle; and, behold, a man turned aside, and brought a man unto me, and said, Keep this man: if by any means he be missing, then shall thy life be for his life, or else thou shalt pay a talent of silver.

Ezra 8:25 · KJV

And weighed unto them the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, even the offering of the house of our God, which the king, and his counsellors, and his lords, and all Israel there present, had offered:

Ezra 8:26 · KJV

I even weighed unto their hand six hundred and fifty talents of silver, and silver vessels an hundred talents, and of gold an hundred talents;

Ezra 8:29 · KJV

Watch ye, and keep them, until ye weigh them before the chief of the priests and the Levites, and chief of the fathers of Israel, at Jerusalem, in the chambers of the house of the LORD.

Ezra 8:33 · KJV

Now on the fourth day was the silver and the gold and the vessels weighed in the house of our God by the hand of Meremoth the son of Uriah the priest; and with him was Eleazar the son of Phinehas; and with them was Jozabad the son of Jeshua, and Noadiah the son of Binnui, Levites;

Esther 3:9 · KJV

If it please the king, let it be written that they may be destroyed: and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver to the hands of those that have the charge of the business, to bring it into the king’s treasuries.

Esther 4:7 · KJV

And Mordecai told him of all that had happened unto him, and of the sum of the money that Haman had promised to pay to the king’s treasuries for the Jews, to destroy them.

Job 6:2 · KJV

Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!

Job 28:15 · KJV

It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof.

Job 31:6 · KJV

Let me be weighed in an even balance that God may know mine integrity.

Isaiah 33:18 · KJV

Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where is the scribe? where is the receiver? where is he that counted the towers?

Isaiah 40:12 · KJV

Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?

Isaiah 46:6 · KJV

They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance, and hire a goldsmith; and he maketh it a god: they fall down, yea, they worship.

Isaiah 55:2 · KJV

Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.

Jeremiah 32:9 · KJV

And I bought the field of Hanameel my uncle’s son, that was in Anathoth, and weighed him the money, even seventeen shekels of silver.

Jeremiah 32:10 · KJV

And I subscribed the evidence, and sealed it, and took witnesses, and weighed him the money in the balances.

Zechariah 11:12 · KJV

And I said unto them, If ye think good, give me my price; and if not, forbear. So they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver.

Common questions

What does Strong's H8254 mean?

H8254 is the Hebrew word שָׁקַל (shâqal), meaning to suspend or poise (especially in trade).

How is H8254 translated in the King James Version?

The King James translators rendered it weighed (11 times), pay (3 times), should receive (1 time), or else thou shalt pay (1 time), even weighed (1 time), among others.

How many times does H8254 appear in the Bible?

שָׁקַל (shâqal) is tagged in 21 verses of the King James Version in this edition's word index.

Where does H8254 come from?

Strong's gives its derivation as: a primitive root.

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