1) to weigh, weigh out, pay out 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to weigh 1a2) to weigh out (a price) 1a3) of grief (fig) 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to be weighed 1b2) to be weighed out Aramaic equivalent: te.qal (תְּקַל "to weigh" H8625A)
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H8254 — שָׁקַל
sha.qal · to weigh · Hebrew/Aramaic
21 tagged verse occurrences
Genesis 23:16 · וַיִּשְׁקֹ֤לAbraham listened to Ephron. Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver which he had named in the audience of the children of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, according to the current merchants’ standard.Exodus 22:17 · יִשְׁקֹ֔לIf her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.2 Samuel 14:26 · וְשָׁקַל֙When he cut the hair of his head (now it was at every year’s end that he cut it; because it was heavy on him, therefore he cut it); he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels, after the king’s weight.2 Samuel 18:12 · שֹׁקֵ֤לThe man said to Joab, “Though I should receive a thousand pieces of silver in my hand, I still wouldn’t put forth my hand against the king’s son; for in our hearing the king commanded you and Abishai and Ittai, saying, ‘Beware that none touch the young man Absalom.’1 Kings 20:39 · תִּשְׁקֽוֹל׃As the king passed by, he cried to the king; and he 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 by any means he be missing, then your life shall be for his life, or else you shall pay a talent of silver.’Ezra 8:25 · וָאֶשְׁקֳלָ֣הand weighed to them the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, even the offering for the house of our God, which the king, and his counselors, and his princes, and all Israel there present, had offered:Ezra 8:26 · וָאֶשְׁקֲלָ֨הI weighed into their hand six hundred fifty talents of silver, and silver vessels one hundred talents; of gold one hundred talents;Ezra 8:29 · תִּשְׁקְל֡וּWatch, and keep them, until you weigh them before the chiefs of the priests and the Levites, and the princes of the fathers’ households of Israel, at Jerusalem, in the rooms of the house of Yahweh.”Ezra 8:33 · נִשְׁקַ֣לOn the fourth day the silver and the gold and the vessels were weighed 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 was Jozabad the son of Jeshua, and Noadiah the son of Binnui, the Levite;Esther 3:9 · אֶשְׁקוֹל֙If it pleases the king, let it be written that they be destroyed; and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver into the hands of those who are in charge of the king’s business, to bring it into the king’s treasuries.”Esther 4:7 · לִ֠שְׁקוֹלMordecai told him of all that had happened to him, and the exact sum of the money that Haman had promised to pay to the king’s treasuries for the destruction of the Jews.Job 6:2 · שָׁק֣וֹל · יִשָּׁקֵ֣ל“Oh that my anguish were weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances!Job 28:15 · יִ֝שָּׁקֵ֗לIt can’t be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for its price.Job 31:6 · יִשְׁקְלֵ֥נִי(let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know my integrity);Isaiah 33:18 · שֹׁקֵ֔לYour heart will meditate on the terror. Where is he who counted? Where is he who weighed? Where is he who counted the towers?Isaiah 40:12 · וְשָׁקַ֤לWho has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and marked off the sky with his span, and calculated the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?Isaiah 46:6 · יִשְׁקֹ֑לוּSome pour out gold from the bag, and weigh silver in the balance. They hire a goldsmith, and he makes it a god. They fall down—yes, they worship.Isaiah 55:2 · תִשְׁקְלוּ־Why do you spend money for that which is not bread? and your labor for that which doesn’t satisfy? listen diligently to me, and eat you that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.Jeremiah 32:9 · וָֽאֶשְׁקֲלָה־I bought the field that was in Anathoth of Hanamel my uncle’s son, and weighed him the money, even seventeen shekels of silver.Jeremiah 32:10 · וָאֶשְׁקֹ֥לI subscribed the deed, and sealed it, and called witnesses, and weighed him the money in the balances.Zechariah 11:12 · וַיִּשְׁקְל֥וּI said to them, “If you think it best, give me my wages; and if not, keep them.” So they weighed for my wages thirty pieces of silver.