Definitions for shekel

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shekel shek·el

Spelling: [shek-uh l]

IPA: /ˈʃɛk əl/

Shekel is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 53 anagrams from letters in shekel (eehkls).

Definitions for shekel

noun

1. Also, sheqel. a paper money, cupronickel or silver coin, and monetary unit of Israel equal to 100 agorot: replaced the pound in 1980.
2. an ancient, originally Babylonian, unit of weight, of varying value, taken as equal to the fiftieth or the sixtieth part of a mina or to about a quarter to half an ounce.
3. a coin of this weight, especially the chief silver coin of the ancient Hebrews.
4. shekels, Slang. money; cash.

Origin of shekel

First recorded in 1550-60, shekel is from the Hebrew word sheqel

Examples for shekel

I will give you a quarter of a shekel for it; and if you find any more bring them to me.

Not a shekel, not a silver penny, not a halfling—so help me the God of Abraham!

Then, no doubt, he taxed them a shekel apiece and let them go.

According to our estimate a shekel was about 0.3 of an avoirdupois ounce.

Exporters would presumably like that, since it will lead to a devaluation of the shekel.

You call a thousand pounds respectable, and a shekel despicable.

The coin was a Jewish shekel, with a cross cut through at one side.

The shekel was equal to about an ounce, in our modern avoirdupois system.

The payment of the shekel gives the right of vote for the congress.

They've got all their own money back, and all of ourn but a shekel or two besides.