Lexical Summary shaqal: to weigh Original Word: שָׁקַלTransliteration: 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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