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Ezra 8:25
“And weighed 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:” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H8254 · Hebrew
- Definition
- to suspend or poise (especially in trade)
- Derivation
- a primitive root;
- KJV renderings
- pay, receive(-r), spend, [idiom] throughly, weigh.
- Grammar
- ו — conjunction
- אשקול — verb Qal, sequential imperfect, 1st person, common, singular
- ה — suffix (paragogic he)
- Usage
- Occurs 23 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 23:16Exodus 22:162 Samuel 14:262 Samuel 18:121 Kings 20:39
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read שָׁקַל here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.