Shekel definitions

Shekel

1) Ancient currency 2) Bethlehem bread 3) Biblical coin 4) Bit of gelt 5) Buck for Barak 6) Coin mentioned in the Bible 7) Currency of israel 8) Foreign currency 9) Haifa currency 10) Hebrew moolah 11) If you eat it, you will die 12) Israeli bread 13) Israeli currency 14) Israeli currency unit 15) Israeli monetary unit
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Shekel

Shekel (sheqel, Akkadian: šiqlu or siqlu, שקל, pl. shekels, sheqels, sheqalim, Hebrew: שקלים), is any of several ancient units of weight or of currency. The first usage is from Mesopotamia around 3000 BC. Initially, it may have referred to a weight of barley. This shekel was about 180 grains (11 grams or .35 troy ounces). ==Etymology== Th...
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Shekel

• (n.) A jocose term for money. • (n.) An ancient weight and coin used by the Jews and by other nations of the same stock.
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shekel

(from the article `measurement system`) ...grams (about 23 ounces) and in another about 978 grams (about 34 ounces). Archaeologists have also found weights of 5 minas, in the shape of a ...
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Shekel

A standard unit of weight first used in Mesopotamia.
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Shekel

Shek'el noun [ Hebrew shegel , from shāgal to weigh.] 1. An ancient weight and coin used by the Jews and by other nations of the same stock. » A common estimate makes the shekel equal in weight to about 130 grains for gold, 224 grains for silver, and 450 grains for cop...
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Shekel

The shekel is the currency of Israel which derived from the Hebrew standard of weight for valuing metal. The original shekels were uncoined ingots of 210 (light shekel) and 420 (heavy shekel) grains of silver. They were first coined by Simon the Hasmonean around 139 BC.
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Shekel

from שקל sheqel
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shekel

[n] - the basic unit of money in Israel
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shekel

[Ivanhoe] an ancient weight and money unit, or coin. Hebrew shekel for gold about 252 2/3 grains (about $10.88)
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shekel

noun the basic unit of money in Israel
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Shekel

Standard monetary unit of Israel - 1 New Shekel (NIS) = 100 agorot.
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