Occurrences
Shâqal occurs 22 times in 21 verses of the King James.
Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (1), Exodus (1), 2 Samuel (2), 1 Kings (1), Ezra (4), Esther (2), Job (3), Isaiah (4), Jeremiah (2), Zechariah (1)
- Genesis 23:16 — And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed (וַיִּשְׁקֹ֤ל) to Ephron the silver, which he had named in the audience of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant.
- Exodus 22:17 — If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay (יִשְׁקֹ֔ל) money according to the dowry of virgins.
- 2 Samuel 14:26 — And when he polled his head, (for it was at every year’s end that he polled it: because the hair was heavy on him, therefore he polled it:) he weighed (וְשָׁקַל֙) the hair of his head at two hundred shekels after the king’s weight.
- 2 Samuel 18:12 — And the man said unto Joab, Though I should receive (שֹׁקֵ֤ל) a thousand shekels of silver in mine hand, yet would I not put forth mine hand against the king’s son: for in our hearing the king charged thee and Abishai and Ittai, saying, Beware that none touch the young man Absalom.
- 1 Kings 20:39 — And as the king passed by, he cried unto the king: and he said, Thy servant went out into the midst of the battle; and, behold, a man turned aside, and brought a man unto me, and said, Keep this man: if by any means he be missing, then shall thy life be for his life, or else thou shalt pay (תִּשְׁקֽוֹל) a talent of silver.
- Ezra 8:25 — And weighed (וָאֶשְׁקֳלָ֣ה) unto them the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, even the offering of the house of our God, which the king, and his counsellors, and his lords, and all Israel there present, had offered:
- Ezra 8:26 — I even weighed (וָאֶשְׁקֲלָ֨ה) unto their hand six hundred and fifty talents of silver, and silver vessels an hundred talents, and of gold an hundred talents;
- Ezra 8:29 — Watch ye, and keep them, until ye weigh (תִּשְׁקְל֡וּ) them before the chief of the priests and the Levites, and chief of the fathers of Israel, at Jerusalem, in the chambers of the house of the LORD.
- Ezra 8:33 — Now on the fourth day was the silver and the gold and the vessels weighed (נִשְׁקַ֣ל) in the house of our God by the hand of Meremoth the son of Uriah the priest; and with him was Eleazar the son of Phinehas; and with them was Jozabad the son of Jeshua, and Noadiah the son of Binnui, Levites;
- Esther 3:9 — If it please the king, let it be written that they may be destroyed: and I will pay (אֶשְׁקוֹל֙) ten thousand talents of silver to the hands of those that have the charge of the business, to bring it into the king’s treasuries.
- Esther 4:7 — And Mordecai told him of all that had happened unto him, and of the sum of the money that Haman had promised to pay (לִ֠שְׁקוֹל) to the king’s treasuries for the Jews, to destroy them.
- Job 6:2 — Oh that my grief were throughly weighed (יִשָּׁקֵ֣ל), and my calamity laid in the balances together!
- Job 6:2 — Oh that my grief were throughly weighed (שָׁק֣וֹל), and my calamity laid in the balances together!
- Job 28:15 — It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed (יִ֝שָּׁקֵ֗ל) for the price thereof.
- Job 31:6 — Let me be weighed (יִשְׁקְלֵ֥נִי) in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity.
- Isaiah 33:18 — Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where is the scribe? where is the receiver (שֹׁקֵ֔ל)? where is he that counted the towers?
- Isaiah 40:12 — Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed (וְשָׁקַ֤ל) the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
- Isaiah 46:6 — They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh (יִשְׁקֹ֑לוּ) silver in the balance, and hire a goldsmith; and he maketh it a god: they fall down, yea, they worship.
- Isaiah 55:2 — Wherefore do ye spend (תִשְׁקְלוּ) money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.
- Jeremiah 32:9 — And I bought the field of Hanameel my uncle’s son, that was in Anathoth, and weighed (וָֽאֶשְׁקֲלָה) him the money, even seventeen shekels of silver.
- Jeremiah 32:10 — And I subscribed the evidence, and sealed it, and took witnesses, and weighed (וָאֶשְׁקֹ֥ל) him the money in the balances.
- Zechariah 11:12 — And I said unto them, If ye think good, give me my price; and if not, forbear. So they weighed for (וַיִּשְׁקְל֥וּ) my price thirty pieces of silver.