Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of several ancient units of weight, especially a Hebrew unit equal to about a half ounce.
- noun A gold or silver coin equal in weight to one of these units, especially the chief silver coin of the ancient Hebrews.
- noun A coin.
- noun Money.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A unit of weight first used in Babylonia, and there equal to one sixtieth part of a mina.
- noun The chief silver coin of the Jews, probably first coined in 141
b. c. by Simon Maccabæus. - noun plural Coins; coin; money.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An ancient weight and coin used by the Jews and by other nations of the same stock.
- noun A jocose term for
money .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
currency unit of bothancient andmodern Israel . - noun informal
money . - noun An ancient unit of
weight equivalent to one-fiftieth of amina .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the basic unit of money in Israel
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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So the fact that sometimes the shekel is strengthening because the dollar is weakening globally doesn't cut a lot of ice with most Israelis.
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So the fact that the shekel is weakening against the euro relative to our exporters is also very important and could be even more important than the dollar.
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It may be at the same time that the shekel is weakening against the euro and we actually trade more with Europe than we do with the United States.
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The shekel is here settled (v. 13); it is twenty jerahs, just half a Roman ounce, in our money 2s. 4 1/4d. and almost the eighth part of a farthing, as the aforesaid learned man exactly computes it.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721
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The whole sum, if in shekel weight, did not exceed - L-3. they brought Joseph into Egypt -- There were two routes to Egypt: the one was overland by Hebron, where Jacob dwelt, and by taking which, the fate of his hapless son would likely have reached the paternal ears; the other was directly westward across the country from Dothan to the maritime coast, and in this, the safest and most expeditious way, the merchants carried Joseph to Egypt.
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Zionist program and pay the annual contribution, known as a shekel, varying from 15 cents to 25 cents in different countries.
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The shekel was the common standard of weight and value among the Hebrews down to the time of the
Easton's Bible Dictionary M.G. Easton 1897
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The shekel was the top performer last week among 10 emerging markets in Europe, the Middle East and Africa tracked by Bloomberg.
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The shekel is the fourth- worst performer among major currencies tracked by Bloomberg in Europe, the Middle East and Africa this quarter, after Turkey's lira, Hungary's forint and the Polish zloty.
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It was called shekel, for we were counted in pairs.
Chabad.org Weekly Magazine [ Passover 5770 - March 29, 2010 ] 2010
gangerh commented on the word shekel
Ta, mollusque.
June 17, 2008
bilby commented on the word shekel
"When I asked why, he said that the anarchist lot thought it would give them their chance. Everything would be in the melting-pot, and they looked to see a new world emerge. The capitalists would rake in the shekels, and make fortunes by buying up wreckage. Capital, he said, had no conscience and no fatherland."
- John Buchan, 'The Thirty-Nine Steps'.
August 27, 2009