Use "shekels" in a sentence
1. If the silver pieces were shekels, the offer of 5,500 shekels was a huge bribe.
2. The first was inscribed: New shekels; that is, shekels set apart for the expenses of the current year.
3. 7 “‘If the age is 60 years and over, the estimated value will be 15 shekels for the male and 10 shekels for the female.
4. You look well, Tom. Still gathering in the shekels , eh?
5. Israel Currency Israel coins are either coins of Agorot or shekels
6. “And I began to weigh out to him the money, seven shekels and ten silver pieces.
7. I have given you as the bride-price of your daughter Miphtahiah (a sum of) 5 shekels. . . .’
8. + 9 The weight of the gold for the nails was 50 shekels;* and he covered the roof chambers with gold.
9. Achan and his family died for Coveting a Babylonian robe, 200 shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold in Joshua 7:21
10. Agorot coins are of 1, 5, 10 and 50 Agorot (or half Shekel), and Shekel coins are of 1, 5 and 10 Shekels
11. Joseph was sold for 20 silver pieces, which may have been shekels, probably the average price for a slave during the 18th century B.C.E.
12. The 30 “silver pieces” that the chief priests paid to Judas Iscariot for his betrayal of Jesus may have been Tyrian shekels. —Matthew 26:14-16.
13. The bakers are asking for a half-shekel increase in the price of challah, to 4.55 shekels, while the government agrees to approve only 20 Agorot, to 4.35.
14. 7 The wooden shaft of his spear was like the beam of loom workers,+ and the iron blade of his spear weighed 600 shekels;* and his shield-bearer was marching ahead of him.
15. He “weighed out to Ephron the amount of silver that he had spoken in the hearing of the sons of Heth, four hundred silver shekels current with the merchants.
16. 15 King Solʹo·mon made 200 large shields of alloyed gold+ (600 shekels* of alloyed gold went on each shield)+ 16 and 300 bucklers* of alloyed gold (three miʹnas* of gold went on each buckler).
17. 16 King Solʹo·mon made 200 large shields of alloyed gold+ (600 shekels* of gold went on each shield)+ 17 and 300 bucklers* of alloyed gold (three miʹnas* of gold went on each buckler).
18. 16 Abraham listened to Eʹphron, and Abraham weighed out to Eʹphron the amount of silver that he had mentioned in the hearing of the sons of Heth, 400 silver shekels* according to the weight accepted by the merchants.
19. 26 The weight of the gold nose rings that he had requested amounted to 1,700 gold shekels,* besides the crescent-shaped ornaments, the pendants, the purple wool garments worn by the kings of Midʹi·an, and the necklaces from the camels.
20. “Since casual laborers received between one-half and one shekel a month in old Babylonian times” (from 42 to 84 shekels in seven full years), continues Wenham, “Jacob was offering Laban a very handsome marriage gift in exchange for Rachel’s hand.”
21. A-murs': Found in the King James Version only in Deuteronomy 22:19, "And they shall Amerce him in an hundred shekels of silver."Amerce is a legal term derived from the French (a = "at"; merci = "mercy," i.e
22. And the elders of that city shall take that man and chastise him; and they shall Amerce him in an hundred shekels of silver, and give them unto the father of the damsel, because he hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel: and …
23. A-murs': Found in the King James Version only in Deuteronomy 22:19, "And they shall Amerce him in an hundred shekels of silver."Amerce is a legal term derived from the French (a = "at"; merci = "mercy," i.e
24. Deu 22:19 - And they shall Amerce H6064 him in an hundred shekels of silver, and give them unto the father of the damsel, because he hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel: and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his days.