Shaqal means “spend” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Strong's H8254 שָׁקַל (shaqal) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. shaqal (shaw-kal') v. 1. to suspend or poise (especially in trade) [a primitive root] It has 21 linked Bible usages across 10 books. Visible English usage signals include weighed, pay, weigh, receive, and throughly. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
shaqal (shaw-kal') v. 1. to suspend or poise (especially in trade) [a primitive root] KJV: pay, receive(-r), spend, X throughly, weigh.
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to weigh
Usage: 1) to weigh, weigh out, pay out 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to weigh 1a2) to weigh out (a price) 1a3) of grief (fig) 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to be weighed 1b2) to be weighed out Aramaic equivalent: te.qal (תְּקַל "to weigh" H8625A)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render shaqal, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
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21 indexed usages in Old Testament.
And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver, which he had named in the audience of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant.
If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.
And when he polled his head, (for it was at every year's end that he polled it: because the hair was heavy on him, therefore he polled it:) he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels after the king's weight.
First 21 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H8254.
And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver, which he had named in the audience of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant.
If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.
And when he polled his head, (for it was at every year's end that he polled it: because the hair was heavy on him, therefore he polled it:) he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels after the king's weight.
And the man said unto Joab, Though I should receive a thousand shekels of silver in mine hand, yet would I not put forth mine hand against the king's son: for in our hearing the king charged thee and Abishai and Ittai, saying, Beware that none touch the young man Absalom.
And as the king passed by, he cried unto the king: and he said, Thy servant went out into the midst of the battle; and, behold, a man turned aside, and brought a man unto me, and said, Keep this man: if by any means he be missing, then shall thy life be for his life, or else thou shalt pay a talent of silver.
And weighed unto them the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, even the offering of the house of our God, which the king, and his counsellors, and his lords, and all Israel there present, had offered:
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;
Watch ye, and keep them, until ye weigh them before the chief of the priests and the Levites, and chief of the fathers of Israel, at Jerusalem, in the chambers of the house of the LORD.
Now on the fourth day was the silver and the gold and the vessels weighed in the house of our God by the hand of Meremoth the son of Uriah the priest; and with him was Eleazar the son of Phinehas; and with them was Jozabad the son of Jeshua, and Noadiah the son of Binnui, Levites;
If it please the king, let it be written that they may be destroyed: and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver to the hands of those that have the charge of the business, to bring it into the king's treasuries.
And Mordecai told him of all that had happened unto him, and of the sum of the money that Haman had promised to pay to the king's treasuries for the Jews, to destroy them.
Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!
It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof.
Let me be weighed in an even balance that God may know mine integrity.
Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where is the scribe? where is the receiver? where is he that counted the towers?
Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance, and hire a goldsmith; and he maketh it a god: they fall down, yea, they worship.
Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.
And I bought the field of Hanameel my uncle's son, that was in Anathoth, and weighed him the money, even seventeen shekels of silver.
And I subscribed the evidence, and sealed it, and took witnesses, and weighed him the money in the balances.
And I said unto them, If ye think good, give me my price; and if not, forbear. So they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H8254, grouped by book.
Shaqal (Strong's H8254) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "spend". shaqal (shaw-kal') v. 1. to suspend or poise (especially in trade) [a primitive root]
This page currently indexes 21 linked usages for Strong's H8254 across 10 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H8254 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as weighed, pay, weigh, receive, throughly, and spend. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.