# H8254 שָׁקַל

שָׁקַל (shâqal), Strong’s H8254: to suspend or poise (especially in trade) KJV: pay, receive(-r), spend, [idiom] throughly, weigh.. Occurs 22 times.

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*shâqal* — to suspend or poise (especially in trade)

KJV: pay, receive(-r), spend, [idiom] throughly, weigh.

Occurs 22 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- שָׁקַל vb. weigh
- Qal
- 1 weigh
- 2 weigh out a price
- Niph. be weighed

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 23:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/23?v=16) — Abraham listened to Ephron. Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver which he had named in the hearing of the children of…
- [Exodus 22:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/22?v=16) — If her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.
- [2 Samuel 14:26](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/14?v=26) — When 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…
- [2 Samuel 18:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/18?v=12) — The man said to Joab, “Though I should receive a thousand pieces of silver in my hand, I still wouldn’t stretch out my…
- [1 Kings 20:39](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/20?v=39) — As the king passed by, he cried to the king, and he said, “Your servant went out into the middle of the battle; and…
- [Isaiah 33:18](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/33?v=18) — Your heart will meditate on the terror. Where is he who counted? Where is he who weighed? Where is he who counted the…
- [Isaiah 40:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/40?v=12) — Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and marked off the sky with his span, and calculated the dust of…
- [Isaiah 46:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/46?v=6) — Some pour out gold from the bag, and weigh silver in the balance. They hire a goldsmith, and he makes it a god. They…
- [Isaiah 55:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/55?v=2) — Why do you spend money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which doesn’t satisfy? Listen diligently to…
- [Jeremiah 32:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/32?v=9) — I bought the field that was in Anathoth of Hanamel my uncle’s son, and weighed him the money, even seventeen shekels of…