2. Noun. (context: informal) money. ¹
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Definition of Sheqel
1. shekel [n SHEQELS or SHEQALIM] - See also: shekel
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sheqel
Literary usage of Sheqel
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Social Legislation of the Primitive Semites by Henry Schaeffer (1915)
">120 To defray the cost of public worship a poll-tax of half a sheqel is imposed
on every adult Israelite, inasmuch as the support of the regular cultus did ..."
2. The Social Legislation of the Primitive Semites by Henry Schaeffer (1915)
"120 To defray the cost of public worship a poll-tax of half a sheqel is imposed
on every adult Israelite, inasmuch as the support of the regular cultus did ..."
3. The Babylonian Expedition of the University of Pennsylvania. by Hermann Vollrat Hilprecht (1906)
"As the rent for one year he shall pay half a sheqel and 15 she of silver.
One-third of a sheqel she has received as the first instalment of his rent. ..."
4. Light on the Old Testament from Babel by Albert Tobias Clay (1906)
"... (ie, for) one sheep, one sheqel; forty-four and one-half minas of wool; twenty
minas of goat wool; they are at the disposal of ..."
5. The Babylonian Expedition of the University of Pennsylvania by Hermann Vollrat Hilprecht (1906)
"c. for) one sheep, one sheqel; forty-four and one- half minas of wool: twenty
minas of goat wool, they are at the disposal of ..."
6. An Outline of the History of the Literature of the Old Testament with by E Kautzsch (1898)
"... the mina (Heb. mane), the sixtieth part of a talent = 982'4 grammes; the
shekel (Heb. sheqel), the sixtieth part of a mina = 16'37 grammes. ..."
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