shekel

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A currency unit of both ancient and modern Israel.

   “So David bought the threshingfloor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.”

2. isim 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.”

3. isim 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;”