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shekels

shekels is the plural of shekel.

Meaning of shekel

Noun

shekel (plural shekels or shekel or shekalim)

  1. A currency unit of both ancient and modern Israel.
    • So David bought the threshingfloor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.1769, Benjamin Blayney (Ed.), King James Bible (2 Samuel 24:24)
  2. (slang) Money.
    • Her gownlet cost five hundred beans; / Her furs, four figures in a row; / Her hat removed from papa's jeans / A hundred shekels more or so.1914, The Judge, volume 66
  3. (historical) An ancient unit of weight equivalent to one-fiftieth of a mina.
    • And it came to pass, as the camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden earring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold;1769, Benjamin Blayney (Ed.), King James Bible (Genesis 24:22)

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Questions about shekels

What is shekels the plural of?
Shekels is the plural of shekel.

Words near shekels in the dictionary

  1. shekarries
  2. shekarry
  3. shekel
  4. shekelberg
  5. shekelbergs
  6. shekels
  7. shekerbura
  8. shekere
  9. shekeres
  10. shekeré
  11. shekerés

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