she.qel is a standard unit used to state weighed quantities, payments, valuations, and measured offerings in the Bible.

The term consistently marks a standard unit for quantified weight or value: silver payments and prices, assessed valuations, and the measured weight of metals, food, vessels, armor, and other objects. Several clauses specify a sanctuary standard or define the unit in relation to gerahs, while market scenes use it to state the price of grain.

1. Standard unit for weight and stated value · dominant

   The noun identifies the unit by which quantities are measured or assessed. In Exodus 30:13 the APB renders a half-unit contribution and states that twenty gerahs make the unit; in Genesis 23:16 it renders Abraham's weighed silver for a land purchase, while 1 Samuel 17:5 and 1 Samuel 17:7 use the plural in stated weights for armor and a spearhead. In 2 Kings 7:1, the singular occurs in clauses giving the price of flour and barley.

   Exodus 30:13Genesis 23:161 Samuel 17:51 Samuel 17:7Numbers 7:852 Kings 7:1

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB ordinarily presents the term as “shekel” or “shekels” when reporting weights, payments, valuations, and prices. It also uses phrases such as “according to the sanctuary shekel”; Its English wording does not by itself identify every contribution of the Hebrew noun.