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What (who) is shekel - definition
ANCIENT UNIT OF CURRENCY
Sheqel; Shekal; Sheqalim; Shekels; Sheqels; Shekalim; SheḲ.; SheK.; Half shekel; Chatzi shekel; Chatzi hashekel; Half-shekel; Half-shekels
![Paleo-Hebrew]] script, at the [[Rockefeller Museum]].](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Shekel - Coins of Second Temple period.jpg?width=200 "Paleo-Hebrew]] script, at the [[Rockefeller Museum]].")
shekel
['??k(?)l]
¦ noun
1. the basic monetary unit of modern Israel, equal to 100 agora.
2. historical a silver coin and unit of weight used in ancient Israel and the Middle East.
3. (shekels) informal money; wealth.
Origin
from Heb. seqel, from saqal 'weigh'.
Shekel
·noun A jocose term for money.
II. Shekel ·noun An ancient weight and coin used by the Jews and by other nations of the same stock.
Shekel
Shekel or sheqel ( šiqlu or siqlu, , plural or shekels, Phoenician: ) is an ancient Mesopotamian coin, usually of silver. A shekel was first a unit of weight—very roughly —and became currency in ancient Tyre and ancient Carthage and then in ancient Israel under the Maccabees.
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Shekel
Shekel or sheqel (Akkadian: 𒅆𒅗𒇻 šiqlu or siqlu, Hebrew: שקל, plural Hebrew: שקלים sheqalim or shekels, Phoenician: 𐤔𐤒𐤋) is an ancient Mesopotamian coin, usually of silver. A shekel was first a unit of weight—very roughly 11 grams (0.39 oz)—and became currency in ancient Tyre and ancient Carthage and then in ancient Israel under the Maccabees.
Examples of use of shekel
1. The shekel rebounded in shekel–dollar options trade yesterday.
2. "Such a shekel loan would be for the company‘s shekel payments," Zisapel writes.
3. The shekel–dollar interest rate gap is now 0.75%, with the shekel paying higher interest rates.
4. Thus the appreciation of the shekel has hurt the shekel value of these funds‘ foreign share holdings.
5. But its debt situation in shekel terms should improve if the shekel continues to weaken against the dollar, they add.