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  "type": "word",
  "id": "H8255",
  "lemma": "שֶׁקֶל",
  "transliteration": "sheqel",
  "definition": "probably a weight; used as a commercial standard",
  "kjv": "shekel.",
  "occurrences": 88,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "builtFrom": [
    {
      "id": "H8254",
      "lemma": "שָׁקַל",
      "transliteration": "shâqal",
      "meaning": "to suspend or poise",
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    }
  ],
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "שֶׁ֫קֶל 87 n.m. a weight, shekel"
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 23:15",
      "text": "“My lord, listen to me. What is a piece of land worth four hundred shekels of silver between me and you? Therefore bury…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/23?v=15"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 23:16",
      "text": "Abraham listened to Ephron. Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver which he had named in the hearing of the children of…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/23?v=16"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 21:32",
      "text": "If the bull gores a male servant or a female servant, thirty shekels of silver shall be given to their master, and the…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/21?v=32"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 30:13",
      "text": "They shall give this, everyone who passes over to those who are counted, half a shekel according to the shekel of the…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/30?v=13"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 30:15",
      "text": "The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less, than the half shekel, when they give the offering of…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/30?v=15"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 30:24",
      "text": "and of cassia five hundred, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; and a hin of olive oil.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/30?v=24"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 38:24",
      "text": "All the gold that was used for the work in all the work of the sanctuary, even the gold of the offering, was…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/38?v=24"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 38:25",
      "text": "The silver of those who were counted of the congregation was one hundred talents and one thousand seven hundred…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/38?v=25"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 38:26",
      "text": "a beka a head, that is, half a shekel, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, for everyone who passed over to those…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/38?v=26"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 38:29",
      "text": "The bronze of the offering was seventy talents and two thousand four hundred shekels.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/38?v=29"
    }
  ],
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