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# תְּקֵל

Biblical Aramaic

**shekel** — used 2 times in the Aramaic chapters of the Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

shekel [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1514/lemma_3a_5ea_5b0_5bc_5e7_5b5_5dc/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תְּקֵל: shekel [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1514/lemma_3a_5ea_5b0_5bc_5e7_5b5_5dc/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] shekel (v. BH שֶׁקֶל; 𝔗 תִּקְלָא);—abs. ת׳ Dn 5:25, 27; v. מְנֵא and reff.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates); Jastrow: none

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: teqel (2).

## 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.

[Daniel 5:25](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.5.25/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.5.25/#tree)

וּדְנָ֥ה כְתָבָ֖א דִּ֣י רְשִׁ֑ים מְנֵ֥א מְנֵ֖א תְּקֵ֥ל וּפַרְסִֽין׃

*Word for word:* and this \[is\].the writing which it.was.inscribed mene mene teqel and pharsin

*JPS 1917:* And this is the writing that was inscribed: MENE MENE, TEKEL UPHARSIN.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5ea_5b0_5bc_5e7_5b5_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_5b5_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).