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Word Summary
shaqal: to weigh
Original Word: שָׁקַל
Transliteration: shaqal
Phonetic Spelling: (shaw-kal')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to weigh
Meaning: to suspend, poise
Strong's Concordance
pay, receive, spend, weigh

A primitive root; to suspend or poise (especially in trade) -- pay, receive(-r), spend, X throughly, weigh.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H8254. shaqal

שָׁקַל‎ verb weigh (Late Hebrew id.; Arabic be heavy, heaviness, weight, load, Old Aramaic תקל‎ weigh, Aramaic תְּקַל‎, (weigh), pay, תִּקְלָא‎ shekel, but also (Old Aramaic, Zinjirli) שקלן שקל,‎ Lzb382; lift up; Assyrian ša‡:âlu, weigh, ši‡lu (apparently) = שֶׁקֶל‎; Ethiopic hand up, weigh; Phoenician משקל‎ weight; compare Frä202, also Greek σίγλος (ᵐ5‎ σίκλος) LagM ii. 357 LewyFramdw. 118 f.; — on connection of meanings compare weigh transitive and intransitive = German wägen, wiegen, also heave, heavy, heft (= weight, obs. or colloq.)); —

Qal Perfect3masculine singular ׳שׁ‎ 2 Samuel 14:26; Isaiah 40:12; Imperfect3masculine singular יִשְׁקִל‎ Exodus 22:16, suffix יִשְׁקְלֵ֫נִי‎ Job 31:6, etc.; Infinitive absolute שָׁקוֺל‎ 6:2; construct לִשְׁקוֺל‎ Esther 4:7; Participle active שֹׁקֵל‎ Isaiah 33:18; 2 Samuel 18:12 read perhaps passive שָׁקֻל‎, see infra, —

1 weigh, human subject, accusative of thing 2 Samuel 14:26; Isaiah 46:6 (ב‎ of scale); figurative, ׳י‎ subject 40:12 also (accusative of person) Job 31:6 (both with ב‎ of scale); compare Infinitive absolute below

Niph`al; weigh precious metals intrusted to one, ל‎ person Ezra 8:25, עַליָֿדָם‎ 8:26, accusative of thing omitted 8:29 (לִפְנֵי‎ of superior).

2 weigh out a price (i.e. pay): accusative of silver Exodus 22:16 (E), 1 Kings 20:39; Zechariah 11:12; Jeremiah 32:10 (ב‎ of scale), Isaiah 55:2 (with ב‎, in exchange for); +ל‎ person Jeremiah 32:9; Genesis 23:16 (P); +עַלכַּֿמַּי‎ 2 Samuel 18:12 (read perhaps שָׁקֻל‎, so We KitKau Bu Buhl), פ ׳עַליְֿדֵי‎ Esther 3:9, הַמֶּלֶךְ עַלגִּֿנְזֵי‎ 4:7

Niph`al be weighed:

1 Perfect3masculine singular נִשְׁקַל‎, subject of thing Ezra 8:33 (passive of Qal 8:25f.); Imperfect3masculine singular figurative (+ Qal Infinitive absolute), כַּעְשִׂי יִשָּׁקֵל שָׁקוֺל לוּ‎ Job 6:2.

2 be weighted out, as price, Job 28:15.

[תְּקַל‎] verb weigh (ᵑ7‎ Syriac; Biblical Hebrew שֶׁקֶל שָׁקַל,‎); —

Pe`il Perfect2masculine singular תְּקִלְתָּא‎ (WCG 224) Daniel 5:27 thou hast been weighed, ב‎ of scales.





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