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Definition of shekel in English: shekelnoun ˈʃɛk(ə)lˈʃɛk(ə)l 1The basic monetary unit of modern Israel, equal to 100 agorot. Example sentencesExamples - I was about to give her a shekel when something about her expression made me look again, and my hand hesitated in embarrassment.
- The minimum that one can give to fulfill this commandment is one-third of a shekel per year.
- The shekel is the measure of money; bargaining is the prototype of all other exchange.
- Israelis claim to have found a counterfeiting press in Ramallah - one for faking shekels, not dollars.
- On the upside, the Jamaica dollar and Israeli shekel gained 0.8%.
- They received five shekels [about £0.60] in order to throw them.
- A shekel buys 15 minutes of game time.
- On the downside, the Thai baht dipped 0.8%, the Israeli shekel 0.5%, and the Hungarian forint 0.5%.
- Growth has ground to a halt, unemployment has shot up, and the shekel has dropped in value.
- And, more importantly for the city, the millions of Jews worldwide who regularly visit memorials in other cities and other nations, will not be spending their dollars and shekels here.
- The rail company has already invested 200 million shekels to lay 250 kilometres of fibre optic cables.
- Gedalya also found a million and a half shekels as well as dollars - all counterfeit.
- This takes time, effort and a not inconsiderable number of dollars, pounds, baht or shekels.
- This week, British pound trades to a five-week high against the dollar; the Swedish krona trades to a three-year high; the South African rand to a 2 ½ year high; the Israeli shekel to a 15-month high.
- Foreign investment has fallen by two thirds and revenues from tourism have halved, undermining Israel's currency, the shekel.
- I'll use any dollars or euros or yen or shekels thrown my way to keep this site online, and if folks do kick in, I promise to try and write more frequently as a token of my appreciation.
- After three years of little or no inflation, consumer prices increased by 6.3 percent in the first six months of the year on the back of a sharp depreciation of the shekel.
- Does 150 shekels represent a lot of money for you?
- The injection of additional dollars would only fuel further Israeli inflation, and push the shekel toward serious devaluation.
- Knafo, a part-time cook in a day-care center, received a monthly income supplement of 2,500 shekels.
- 1.1historical A silver coin and unit of weight used in ancient Israel and the Middle East.
Example sentencesExamples - Ephron has named a price - a pretty stiff price; a shekel was a measure of weight, 11.5 grams; four hundred shekels would amount to 10.6 pounds of silver.
- And I bought the field of Hanameel my uncle's son, that was in Anathoth, and weighed him the money, even seventeen shekels of silver.
- The man took out a gold nose ring weighing a beka and two gold bracelets weighing ten shekels.
- And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold: six hundred shekels of gold went to one target.
- And he had an helmet of brass upon his head, and he was armed with a coat of mail; and the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of brass.
- 1.2shekelsinformal Money; wealth.
thank you for saving me time, not to mention hard-won shekels Example sentencesExamples - All that awaits you now, Bheki, is, I trust, money - lots of lovely lolly, latkes, folding green stuff, shekels.
- To avert feline catastrophe, head over to the blog deemed Most Deserving of Wider Recognition and drop a few shekels in the tip jar.
- With the demise of this wine style, many Australian vineyards of very old Grenache vines were torn out, for a few shekels of government compensation.
Synonyms money, wealth, finance, finances, funds, cash, hard cash, lucre, filthy lucre, wherewithal, means, assets, liquid assets, capital, resources, reserves, deep pockets
Origin From Hebrew šeqel, from šāqal 'weigh'. Rhymes deckle, freckle, heckle, Jekyll, speckle Definition of shekel in US English: shekelnounˈSHek(ə)lˈʃɛk(ə)l 1The basic monetary unit of modern Israel, equal to 100 agorot. Example sentencesExamples - The rail company has already invested 200 million shekels to lay 250 kilometres of fibre optic cables.
- Growth has ground to a halt, unemployment has shot up, and the shekel has dropped in value.
- I was about to give her a shekel when something about her expression made me look again, and my hand hesitated in embarrassment.
- A shekel buys 15 minutes of game time.
- The injection of additional dollars would only fuel further Israeli inflation, and push the shekel toward serious devaluation.
- They received five shekels [about £0.60] in order to throw them.
- This takes time, effort and a not inconsiderable number of dollars, pounds, baht or shekels.
- The minimum that one can give to fulfill this commandment is one-third of a shekel per year.
- The shekel is the measure of money; bargaining is the prototype of all other exchange.
- Foreign investment has fallen by two thirds and revenues from tourism have halved, undermining Israel's currency, the shekel.
- This week, British pound trades to a five-week high against the dollar; the Swedish krona trades to a three-year high; the South African rand to a 2 ½ year high; the Israeli shekel to a 15-month high.
- Israelis claim to have found a counterfeiting press in Ramallah - one for faking shekels, not dollars.
- Gedalya also found a million and a half shekels as well as dollars - all counterfeit.
- And, more importantly for the city, the millions of Jews worldwide who regularly visit memorials in other cities and other nations, will not be spending their dollars and shekels here.
- I'll use any dollars or euros or yen or shekels thrown my way to keep this site online, and if folks do kick in, I promise to try and write more frequently as a token of my appreciation.
- Does 150 shekels represent a lot of money for you?
- After three years of little or no inflation, consumer prices increased by 6.3 percent in the first six months of the year on the back of a sharp depreciation of the shekel.
- On the downside, the Thai baht dipped 0.8%, the Israeli shekel 0.5%, and the Hungarian forint 0.5%.
- Knafo, a part-time cook in a day-care center, received a monthly income supplement of 2,500 shekels.
- On the upside, the Jamaica dollar and Israeli shekel gained 0.8%.
- 1.1historical A silver coin and unit of weight used in ancient Israel and the Middle East.
Example sentencesExamples - Ephron has named a price - a pretty stiff price; a shekel was a measure of weight, 11.5 grams; four hundred shekels would amount to 10.6 pounds of silver.
- And I bought the field of Hanameel my uncle's son, that was in Anathoth, and weighed him the money, even seventeen shekels of silver.
- The man took out a gold nose ring weighing a beka and two gold bracelets weighing ten shekels.
- And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold: six hundred shekels of gold went to one target.
- And he had an helmet of brass upon his head, and he was armed with a coat of mail; and the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of brass.
- 1.2shekelsinformal Money; wealth.
thank you for saving me time, not to mention hard-won shekels Example sentencesExamples - With the demise of this wine style, many Australian vineyards of very old Grenache vines were torn out, for a few shekels of government compensation.
- All that awaits you now, Bheki, is, I trust, money - lots of lovely lolly, latkes, folding green stuff, shekels.
- To avert feline catastrophe, head over to the blog deemed Most Deserving of Wider Recognition and drop a few shekels in the tip jar.
Synonyms money, wealth, finance, finances, funds, cash, hard cash, lucre, filthy lucre, wherewithal, means, assets, liquid assets, capital, resources, reserves, deep pockets
Origin From Hebrew šeqel, from šāqal ‘weigh’. |