Aramaic word · H8625

תְּקֵל

tekel

shekel

A Biblical Aramaic word, from the parts of the Old Testament written in Aramaic. Why Aramaic?

Appears 3 times in 2 verses of the Aramaic of the Old Testament.

What it means

1) tekel, shekel

1a) (P'al) tekel-a unit of weight, shekel

Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).

Where it appears

Daniel · 3

  1. Daniel 5:25 תְּקֵ֥ל teqel

    Now this is the inscription that was written: MENE, MENE, TEKEL, PARSIN.

  2. Daniel 5:27 תְּקֵ֑ל תְּקִ֥ילְתָּה teqel, you have been weighed

    TEKEL means that you have been weighed on the scales and found deficient.

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