different between shekel vs gerah

English

Alternative forms

• sheqel

Etymology

From Hebrew ??????? (shékel, “shekel”), from ??????? (shakál, “to weigh”), from Akkadian ???? (šiqlu).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???k?l/
• Rhymes: -?k?l
• Hyphenation: shek?el

Noun

shekel (plural shekels or shekalim)

1. A currency unit of both ancient and modern Israel.
2. (slang) Money.
   • 1914, The Judge (volume 66)

     Her gownlet cost five hundred beans; / Her furs, four figures in a row; / Her hat removed from papa's jeans / A hundred shekels more or so.

   • 1924, James Alban Wilson, Sport and Service in Assam and Elsewhere (page 288)

     […] after the 1887-9 campaign was the great refuge of the destitute who, as they could not hope to rake in a breast-full of medals and decorations, expected, at any rate, to amass a good few shekels.

   • 2018, Gerry Woodhouse, Lord Damnus: Conqueror of the World

     The mob had filched anything that might earn them a shekel or two.

3. (historical) An ancient unit of weight equivalent to one-fiftieth of a mina.

Derived terms

• new shekel

Translations

See also

• agora
• ILS
• NIS

Further reading

• shekel on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

From Hebrew ??????? (shékel, “shekel”), from ??????? (shakál, “to weigh”).

Noun

shekel m (plural shekels)

1. shekel (unit of currency)

Portuguese

Noun

shekel m (plural shekels)

1. sheqel (currency unit in Israel)

English

Etymology

From Hebrew ??????? (gerá, “twentieth of a shekel”, literally “cud”)

Noun

gerah (plural gerahs)

1. (historical) An ancient Hebrew unit of weight and currency, one twentieth of a shekel.
   • New International Version (NIV), Exodus 30:13

     Each one who crosses over to those already counted is to give a half shekel, according to the sanctuary shekel, which weighs twenty gerahs.

   • New International Version (NIV), Leviticus 27:25

     Every value is to be set according to the sanctuary shekel, twenty gerahs to the shekel.

Anagrams

• Hager