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# תְּקַל

Biblical Aramaic

**weigh** — used 1 times in the Aramaic chapters of the Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

weigh [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1514/lemma_3a_5ea_5b0_5bc_5e7_5b7_5dc/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תְּקַל: vb. weigh Peʿîl [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1514/lemma_3a_5ea_5b0_5bc_5e7_5b7_5dc/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. weigh (𝔗 Syriac; BH שָׁקַל, שֶׁקֶל);—Peʿîl Pf. 2 ms. תְּקִלְתָּא (WCG 224) Dn 5:27 thou hast been weighed, ב of scales.

### Jastrow 1903

תְּקַל I: to weigh Ithpe. to be weighed [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1514/lemma_3a_5ea_5b0_5bc_5e7_5b7_5dc/#m3)

**The whole Jastrow entry:** = h. שָׁקַל, to weigh. Targ. Gen. XXIII, 16. Targ. Is. XLVI, 6; a. fr.—\[Targ. Job VI, 2, V. Ithpe.\]—Part. pass. תָּקִיל; pl. תְּקִילִין. Targ. Is. XL, 12 מִתְקַל תְּקִילִין (ed. Wil. מַתְקַל תַּקִילִין, corr. acc.); a. e.—B. Kam. 119ᵃ רב חסדא … דהוה תָקֵיל ויהיב תקיל ושקיל Rab Ḥ. had a tenant who weighed and gave, weighed and took (i.e. who was very close in settling; oth. opin. who took one-half of the produces, instead of the customary one-third). B. Mets. 44ᵇ טבין ותקילין in good and full-weight Denars. same.—\[Targ. Is. XL, 12, v. supra.\]—Y. Shebi. IV, end, 35ᶜ מַתְקל גושיא weighed the clods (of the holy land); v. כֶּיפָא I. (אִתְקַל) to be weighed. Targ. Job VI, 2. Ib. XXVIII, 15; a. e.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates); Jastrow: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: you have been weighed (1).

## In the verses

[Daniel 5:27](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.5.27/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.5.27/#tree)

תְּקֵ֑ל תְּקִ֥ילְתָּה בְמֹֽאזַנְיָ֖א וְהִשְׁתְּכַ֥חַתְּ חַסִּֽיר׃

*Word for word:* teqel you.have.been.weighed in the scales and you.have.been.found lacking

*JPS 1917:* TEKEL, Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5ea_5b0_5bc_5e7_5b7_5dc.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1514/lemma_3a_5ea_5b0_5bc_5e7_5b7_5dc/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).