Nave’s Topical Bible
Shekel
25 Bible references
Sub-topics and passages
- A weight, equal to twenty gerahs
- Used to weigh silver
- Fractions of, used in currency
- Used to weigh
- Gold
Genesis 24:22; Numbers 7:14,20-86; Joshua 7:21; 1 Kings 10:16
- Cinnamon
- Hair
- Iron
- Myrrh
- Rations
- Gold
- Fines paid in
- Fees paid in
- Sanctuary revenues paid in
- Of different standards
- Of the sanctuary
- Of the king's weight
- Corrupted
Bible verses about “Shekel”
The first verses cited, in the King James Version.
- Exodus 30:13This they shall give, every one that passeth among them that are numbered, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary: (a shekel is twenty gerahs:) an half shekel shall be the offering of the Lord.
- Numbers 3:47Thou shalt even take five shekels apiece by the poll, after the shekel of the sanctuary shalt thou take them: (the shekel is twenty gerahs:)
- Ezekiel 45:12And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs: twenty shekels, five and twenty shekels, fifteen shekels, shall be your maneh.
- Joshua 7:21When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them; and, behold, they are hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it.
- Judges 8:26And the weight of the golden earrings that he requested was a thousand and seven hundred shekels of gold; beside ornaments, and collars, and purple raiment that was on the kings of Midian, and beside the chains that were about their camels’ necks.
- Judges 17:2And he said unto his mother, The eleven hundred shekels of silver that were taken from thee, about which thou cursedst, and spakest of also in mine ears, behold, the silver is with me; I took it. And his mother said, Blessed be thou of the Lord, my son.
- Judges 17:3And when he had restored the eleven hundred shekels of silver to his mother, his mother said, I had wholly dedicated the silver unto the Lord from my hand for my son, to make a graven image and a molten image: now therefore I will restore it unto thee.
- 1 Samuel 9:8And the servant answered Saul again, and said, Behold, I have here at hand the fourth part of a shekel of silver: that will I give to the man of God, to tell us our way.
- Nehemiah 10:32Also we made ordinances for us, to charge ourselves yearly with the third part of a shekel for the service of the house of our God;
- Genesis 24:22And it came to pass, as the camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden earring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold;
- Numbers 7:14One spoon of ten shekels of gold, full of incense:
- Numbers 7:20One spoon of gold of ten shekels, full of incense:
- Numbers 7:21One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:
- Numbers 7:22One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
- Numbers 7:23And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Nethaneel the son of Zuar.
- Numbers 7:24On the third day Eliab the son of Helon, prince of the children of Zebulun, did offer:
- Numbers 7:25His offering was one silver charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
- Numbers 7:26One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
- Numbers 7:27One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:
- Numbers 7:28One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
- Numbers 7:29And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Eliab the son of Helon.
- Numbers 7:30On the fourth day Elizur the son of Shedeur, prince of the children of Reuben, did offer:
- Numbers 7:31His offering was one silver charger of the weight of an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
- Numbers 7:32One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
- Numbers 7:33One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:
- Numbers 7:34One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
- Numbers 7:35And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Elizur the son of Shedeur.
- Numbers 7:36On the fifth day Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai, prince of the children of Simeon, did offer:
- Numbers 7:37His offering was one silver charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
- Numbers 7:38One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
- Numbers 7:39One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:
- Numbers 7:40One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
- Numbers 7:41And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.
- Numbers 7:42On the sixth day Eliasaph the son of Deuel, prince of the children of Gad, offered:
- Numbers 7:43His offering was one silver charger of the weight of an hundred and thirty shekels, a silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
- Numbers 7:44One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
- Numbers 7:45One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:
- Numbers 7:46One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
- Numbers 7:47And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Eliasaph the son of Deuel.
- Numbers 7:48On the seventh day Elishama the son of Ammihud, prince of the children of Ephraim, offered: