שָׁקַל

Genesis 23:16 וַיִּשְׁקֹ֤ל and he weighed out

Abraham agreed to Ephron’s terms and weighed out for him the price he had named in the hearing of the Hittites: four hundred shekels of silver, according to the standard of the merchants.

Here: “And he weighed out”: silver was paid by putting it on scales against stone or metal weights, not by counting coins. The verb comes from the same root as “shekel” later in the verse, so it is roughly “he shekeled out shekels”.

Exodus 22:17 יִשְׁקֹ֔ל he will weigh out

If her father absolutely refuses to give her to him, the man still must pay an amount comparable to the bridal price of a virgin.

2 Samuel 14:26 וְשָׁקַל֙ and he weighed

And when he cut the hair of his head—he shaved it every year because his hair got so heavy—he would weigh it out to be two hundred shekels, according to the royal standard.

2 Samuel 18:12 שֹׁקֵ֤ל [were] weighing

The man replied, “Even if a thousand shekels of silver were weighed out into my hands, I would not raise my hand against the son of the king. For we heard the king command you and Abishai and Ittai, ‘Protect the young man Absalom for my sake.’

1 Kings 20:39 תִּשְׁקֽוֹל׃ you will weigh out

As the king passed by, he cried out to the king: “Your servant had marched out into the middle of the battle, when suddenly a man came over with a captive and told me, ‘Guard this man! If he goes missing for any reason, your life will be exchanged for his life, or you will weigh out a talent of silver.’

Ezra 8:25 וָאֶשְׁקֳלָ֣ה and I weighed out !

and I weighed out to them the contribution of silver and gold and the articles that the king, his counselors, his leaders, and all the Israelites there had offered for the house of our God.

Ezra 8:26 וָאֶשְׁקֲלָ֨ה and I weighed out !

I weighed out into their hands 650 talents of silver, articles of silver weighing 100 talents, 100 talents of gold,

Ezra 8:29 תִּשְׁקְל֡וּ you will weigh [them] out

Guard them carefully until you weigh them out in the chambers of the house of the LORD in Jerusalem before the leading priests, Levites, and heads of the Israelite families.”

Ezra 8:33 נִשְׁקַ֣ל it was weighed out

On the fourth day, in the house of our God, we weighed out the silver and gold and sacred articles into the hand of Meremoth son of Uriah, the priest. Eleazar son of Phinehas was with him, along with the Levites Jozabad son of Jeshua and Noadiah son of Binnui.

Esther 3:9 אֶשְׁקוֹל֙ I will weigh out

If it pleases the king, let a decree be issued to destroy them, and I will deposit ten thousand talents of silver into the royal treasury to pay those who carry it out.”

Esther 4:7 לִ֠שְׁקוֹל to weigh out

and Mordecai told him all that had happened to him, including the exact amount of money that Haman had promised to pay into the royal treasury in order to destroy the Jews.

Job 6:2 שָׁק֣וֹל יִשָּׁקֵ֣ל certainly [if] <to weigh>, it will be weighed

“If only my grief could be weighed and placed with my calamity on the scales.

Job 28:15 יִ֝שָּׁקֵ֗ל it will be weighed out

It cannot be bought with gold, nor can its price be weighed out in silver.

Job 31:6 יִשְׁקְלֵ֥נִי let him weigh me

let God weigh me with honest scales, that He may know my integrity.

Here: "Let him weigh me." The verb for weighing out silver or goods on a scale (the source of the word shekel). The form can be a plain statement, but in this oath it works as a wish or demand: Job puts himself on the scale like a payment of silver to be checked.

Isaiah 33:18 שֹׁקֵ֔ל [is one who] weighed

Your mind will ponder the former terror: “Where is he who tallies? Where is he who weighs? Where is he who counts the towers?”

Isaiah 40:12 וְשָׁקַ֤ל and has he weighed?

Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, or marked off the heavens with the span of his hand? Who has held the dust of the earth in a basket, or weighed the mountains on a scale and the hills with a balance?

Here: The market verb for weighing out silver or goods; the shekel takes its name from it. The question moves from measuring by length and volume to measuring by weight.

Isaiah 46:6 יִשְׁקֹ֑לוּ they weigh out

They pour out their bags of gold and weigh out silver on scales; they hire a goldsmith to fashion it into a god, so they can bow down and worship.

Here: "They weigh out": the normal way of paying before coins came into wide use. The root gives us "shekel", which was a unit of weight. The verb puts the god-making squarely in the world of buying and selling.

Isaiah 55:2 תִשְׁקְלוּ־ do you weigh out

Why spend money on that which is not bread, and your labor on that which does not satisfy? Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good, and your soul will delight in the richest of foods.

Here: 'Do you weigh out', the ordinary verb for paying, because payment meant putting silver on a scale. The plural form addresses the whole community, and the ongoing form pictures a habit: you keep paying.

Jeremiah 32:9 וָֽאֶשְׁקֲלָה־ and I weighed out !

So I bought the field in Anathoth from my cousin Hanamel, and I weighed out seventeen shekels of silver.

Here: Payment was made by weighing silver on scales (v. 10), not by counting coins. The verb has an extra -ah ending, common in Jeremiah's period and adding a slight emphasis on the speaker's own action ("and I for my part weighed out").

Jeremiah 32:10 וָאֶשְׁקֹ֥ל and I weighed out

I signed and sealed the deed, called in witnesses, and weighed out the silver on the scales.

Zechariah 11:12 וַיִּשְׁקְל֥וּ and they weighed out

Then I told them, “If it seems right to you, give me my wages; but if not, keep them.” So they weighed out my wages, thirty pieces of silver.

Here: Silver was paid by weighing it on scales. The verb shares its root with 'shekel', the standard weight. Their answer is an action: they weigh it out deliberately.