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Ezra 8:26
“I even weighed unto their hand six hundred and fifty talents of silver, and silver vessels an hundred talents, and of gold an hundred talents;” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
שָׁקַלshâqal · shaw-kal'
H8254 · Hebrew
H8254 · Hebrew
- Definition
- to suspend or poise (especially in trade)
- Derivation
- a primitive root;
- KJV renderings
- pay, receive(-r), spend, [idiom] throughly, weigh.
- Grammar
- וָ — conjunction
- אֶשְׁקֲלָ֨ — 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.