shekel

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A currency unit of both ancient and modern Israel.
    — So David bought the threshingfloor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.
  2. Money. slang
    — Her gownlet cost five hundred beans; / Her furs, four figures in a row; / Her hat removed from papa's jeans / A hundred shekels more or so.
  3. An ancient unit of weight equivalent to one-fiftieth of a mina. historical
    — And 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;

词形变化

shekels plural shekel plural shekalim plural sheqel alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
new shekel
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词源

From Hebrew שֶׁקֶל (shékel, “shekel”), from שָׁקַל (shakál, “to weigh”), from Akkadian 𒂅 (šiqlum).
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