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# shekels

«shekels» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **The plural of shekel, an ancient weight of silver and…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

The plural of shekel, an ancient weight of silver and unit of money. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/shekels/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Shekels count the value of gifts, fines and offerings, such as the silver for the sanctuary.

### examples

- one golden pan of ten shekels, full of incense; (Torah NUM.7.14, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/shekels/#x1)
- And if it be a female, then thy valuation shall be thirty shekels. (Torah LEV.27.4, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/shekels/#x2)
- And the brass of the offering was seventy talents and two thousand and four hundred shekels. (Torah EXO.38.29, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/shekels/#x3)
- And the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. (Writings 2CH.3.9, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/shekels/#x4)
- So David gave to Ornan for the place six hundred shekels of gold by weight. (Writings 1CH.21.25, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/shekels/#x5)
- And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold: six hundred shekels of gold went to one target. (Prophets 1KI.10.16, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/shekels/#x6)

### note

A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.

### In the corpora

- [And the brass of the offering was seventy talents and two thousand and four hundred shekels.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.1181/)
- [And if it be a female, then thy valuation shall be thirty shekels.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.838/)
- [one golden pan of ten shekels, full of incense;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.261/)
- [one golden pan of ten shekels, full of incense;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.268/)
- [one golden pan of ten shekels, full of incense;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.275/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «shekels» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/shekels/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.