H8254. shaqal
שָׁקַל verb weigh (Late Hebrew id.; Arabic be heavy, heaviness, weight, load, Old Aramaic תקל weigh, Aramaic תְּקַל, (weigh), pay, תִּקְלָא shekel, but also (Old Aramaic, Zinjirli) שקלן שקל, Lzb382; lift up; Assyrian ša‡:âlu, weigh, ši‡lu (apparently) = שֶׁקֶל; Ethiopic hand up, weigh; Phoenician משקל weight; compare Frä202, also Greek σίγλος (ᵐ5 σίκλος) LagM ii. 357 LewyFramdw. 118 f.; — on connection of meanings compare weigh transitive and intransitive = German wägen, wiegen, also heave, heavy, heft (= weight, obs. or colloq.)); —
Qal Perfect3masculine singular ׳שׁ [2Sam 14:26]; [Isa 40:12]; Imperfect3masculine singular יִשְׁקִל [Exod 22:16], suffix יִשְׁקְלֵ֫נִי [Job 31:6], etc.; Infinitive absolute שָׁקוֺל [6:2]; construct לִשְׁקוֺל [Est 4:7]; Participle active שֹׁקֵל [Isa 33:18]; [2Sam 18:12] read perhaps passive שָׁקֻל, see infra, —
1 weigh, human subject, accusative of thing [2Sam 14:26]; [Isa 46:6] (ב of scale); figurative, ׳י subject [40:12] also (accusative of person) [Job 31:6] (both with ב of scale); compare Infinitive absolute below
Niph`al; weigh precious metals intrusted to one, ל person [Ezra 8:25], עַליָֿדָם [8:26], accusative of thing omitted [8:29] (לִפְנֵי of superior).
2 weigh out a price (i.e. pay): accusative of silver [Exod 22:16] (E), [1Kin 20:39]; [Zech 11:12]; [Jer 32:10] (ב of scale), [Isa 55:2] (with ב, in exchange for); +ל person [Jer 32:9]; [Gen 23:16] (P); +עַלכַּֿמַּי [2Sam 18:12] (read perhaps שָׁקֻל, so We KitKau Bu Buhl), פ ׳עַליְֿדֵי [Est 3:9], הַמֶּלֶךְ עַלגִּֿנְזֵי [4:7]
Niph`al be weighed:
1 Perfect3masculine singular נִשְׁקַל, subject of thing [Ezra 8:33] (passive of Qal [8:25]f.); Imperfect3masculine singular figurative (+ Qal Infinitive absolute), כַּעְשִׂי יִשָּׁקֵל שָׁקוֺל לוּ [Job 6:2].
2 be weighted out, as price, [Job 28:15].
[תְּקַל] verb weigh (ᵑ7 Syriac; Biblical Hebrew שֶׁקֶל שָׁקַל,); —
Pe`il Perfect2masculine singular תְּקִלְתָּא (WCG 224) [Dan 5:27] thou hast been weighed, ב of scales.