Definitions for shekels

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shekels shek·el

Spelling: [shek-uh l]

IPA: /ˈʃɛk əl/

Shekels is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 69 anagrams from letters in shekels (eehklss).

Definitions for shekels

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 shekels

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

Examples for shekels

People at other Israeli crossings must declare holding over 100,000 shekels.

They give the oof, the dollars, the shekels, and do not give the power to enjoy.

I can hear the shekels chinking into our pockets this minute.

Ameira still had to pay 25,000 shekels ($7,000) to hire a bulldozer and trucks to transport the rubble….

Barkat filed a suit for violence and racism and received 30,000 shekels compensation.

But it was there he was betrayed for a few trillion shekels of yuan.

A talent was divided into sixty minæ, a mina into sixty shekels.

Strangers are not liked, and are only tolerated for the shekels that can be extracted or robbed from them.

Israeli production companies estimate a loss of hundreds of thousands of shekels over the location change.

Which has most to do with shekels to-day, the priests or the politicians?