שקל, signifies weight, money, shekel, _siclus_, a Hebrew weight
and money, Exod. xxx, 23, 24; 2 Sam. xiv, 26. Shekel is used to denote
the weight of any thing; as iron, hair, spices, &c. Dr. Arbuthnot makes
the weight of the shekel equal to 9 dwt. 2<sup>4</sup>⁄<sub>7</sub> gr.
English troy weight; and the value equal to 2s. 3⅜d. sterling money: but
the golden shekel was worth 1_l._ 16_s._ 6_d._ English money. Some are
of opinion that the Jews had two kinds of shekels, namely, the common
one already noticed, and the shekel of the sanctuary, which last they
make double the former. But most authors make them the same, and think
that the word sanctuary is added to express a just and exact weight,
according to the standards kept in the temple or tabernacle. Moses, Num.
xviii, 16, and Ezekiel, xlv, 12, say, that the shekel was worth twenty
gerahs.
and money, Exod. xxx, 23, 24; 2 Sam. xiv, 26. Shekel is used to denote
the weight of any thing; as iron, hair, spices, &c. Dr. Arbuthnot makes
the weight of the shekel equal to 9 dwt. 2<sup>4</sup>⁄<sub>7</sub> gr.
English troy weight; and the value equal to 2s. 3⅜d. sterling money: but
the golden shekel was worth 1_l._ 16_s._ 6_d._ English money. Some are
of opinion that the Jews had two kinds of shekels, namely, the common
one already noticed, and the shekel of the sanctuary, which last they
make double the former. But most authors make them the same, and think
that the word sanctuary is added to express a just and exact weight,
according to the standards kept in the temple or tabernacle. Moses, Num.
xviii, 16, and Ezekiel, xlv, 12, say, that the shekel was worth twenty
gerahs.