σίκλος
shekel
Where this word appears
A sample of passages — one per book it occurs in — where σίκλος appears in the Greek Septuagint (of 73 total occurrences). Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Exodus 30:23 σίκλος Do you also take sweet herbs, the flower of choice myrrh five hundred shekels, and the half of this two hundred and fifty shekels of sweet smelling cinnamon, and two hundred and fifty shekels of sweet smelling calamus,
- Leviticus 5:15 σίκλος The soul which shall be really unconscious, and shall sin unwillingly in any of the holy things of the Lord, shall even bring to the Lord for his transgression, a ram of the flock without blemish, valued according to shekels of silver according to the shekel of the sanctuary, for his transgression wherein he transgressed.
- Numbers 3:47 σίκλος you shall even take five shekels a head; you shall take them according to the holy didrachm, twenty oboli to the shekel.
- Deuteronomy 22:19 σίκλος and shall fine him one hundred shekels, and shall give them to the father of the damsel, because he has brought forth an evil name against a virgin of Israel; and she shall be his wife: he shall never be able to put her away.
- 1 Samuel 9:8 σίκλος And the young man answered Saul again, and said, Behold, there is found in my hand a fourth part of a shekel of silver; and you shall give it to the man of God, and he shall tell us our way.
- 2 Samuel 14:26 σίκλος And when he polled his head, (and it was at the beginning of every year that he polled it, because it grew, heavy upon him,) even when he polled it, he weighed the hair of his head, two hundred shekels according to the royal shekel.
- 2 Kings 6:25 σίκλος And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass's head was valued at fifty pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung at five pieces of silver.
- 1 Chronicles 21:25 σίκλος And David gave to Orna for his place six hundred shekels of gold by weight.
- 2 Chronicles 3:9 σίκλος And the weight of the nails, even the weight of each was fifty shekels of gold: and he gilded the upper chamber with gold.
- Isaiah 7:23 σίκλος And it shall come to pass in that day, for every place where there shall be a thousand vines at a thousand shekels, they shall become barren land and thorns.
- Jeremiah 39:9 σίκλος And I bought the field of Anameel the son of my father's brother, and I weighed him seventeen shekels of silver.
- Ezekiel 4:10 σίκλος And you shall eat your food by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time shall you eat them.
About this word
About this word
σίκλος (síklos), “shekel,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 73 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →