Noun:

பழங்கால பாபிலோனியாவின் வெள்ளி நாணய வகை,

shekel தமிழ் அர்த்தத்தின் உதாரணம்:

None

shekel's Usage Examples:

about 3,000,000 shekels) was raised by assessing every wealthy person at So shekels.

The Ptolemaic copper coinage is on two bases -- the uten, binarily divided, and the Ptolemaic five shekels (1050), also binarily divided.

24 the temple tax of half a shekel is called a didrachm (2 drams).

2 for the shekel; 9 haematite barrel-shaped weights (38) give 128.

"They got the shekels, and Findlay gives a few heckles.

Probably the 129 and 224 systems coexisted in the country; but on the whole it seems more likely that 129 or rather 258 grains was the Hebrew shekel before the Ptolemaic times -- especially as the 100 shekels to the mina is paralleled by the following Persian system (Hultsch) --Probably both coexisted for some time.

The sela` in late Hebrew answers to the older shekel, and the mention of it seems to point to Jewish or Christian influence.

7, and the sacred unit of Didyma in Ionia was this half-drachm, 27; or thirdly, what is indicated by the Lydian coinage (17), 86 of gold was equal to 1150 of silver, 5 shekels or 1/10th mina.

Probably the 129 and 224 systems coexisted in the country; but on the whole it seems more likely that 129 or rather 258 grains was the Hebrew shekel before the Ptolemaic times -- especially as the 100 shekels to the mina is paralleled by the following Persian system (Hultsch) --This would all be against the 129 or 258 shekel, and for the 218 or 224.

From the east this unit passed to Asia Minor; and six multiples of 2 to 20 shekels (av.

Synonyms:

agora, Israeli monetary unit,

Antonyms:

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