תְּקַל
Biblical Aramaic
Meaning
OpenScriptures lexical index
weigh tree →
Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906
תְּקַל: vb. weigh Peʿîl tree →
The whole BDB entry
vb. weigh (𝔗 Syriac; BH שָׁקַל, שֶׁקֶל);—Peʿîl Pf. 2 ms. תְּקִלְתָּא (WCG 224) Dn 5:27 thou hast been weighed, ב of scales.
Jastrow 1903
תְּקַל I: to weigh Ithpe. to be weighed tree →
The whole Jastrow entry
= h. שָׁקַל, to weigh. Targ. Gen. XXIII, 16. Targ. Is. XLVI, 6; a. fr.—[Targ. Job VI, 2, V. Ithpe.]—Part. pass. תָּקִיל; pl. תְּקִילִין. Targ. Is. XL, 12 מִתְקַל תְּקִילִין (ed. Wil. מַתְקַל תַּקִילִין, corr. acc.); a. e.—B. Kam. 119ᵃ רב חסדא … דהוה תָקֵיל ויהיב תקיל ושקיל Rab Ḥ. had a tenant who weighed and gave, weighed and took (i.e. who was very close in settling; oth. opin. who took one-half of the produces, instead of the customary one-third). B. Mets. 44ᵇ טבין ותקילין in good and full-weight Denars. same.—[Targ. Is. XL, 12, v. supra.]—Y. Shebi. IV, end, 35ᶜ מַתְקל גושיא weighed the clods (of the holy land); v. כֶּיפָא I. (אִתְקַל) to be weighed. Targ. Job VI, 2. Ib. XXVIII, 15; a. e.
Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates); Jastrow: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (5 candidates)
Glosses
MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: you have been weighed (1).
In the verses
תְּקֵ֑ל תְּקִ֥ילְתָּה בְמֹֽאזַנְיָ֖א וְהִשְׁתְּכַ֥חַתְּ חַסִּֽיר׃
Word for word: teqel you.have.been.weighed in the scales and you.have.been.found lacking
JPS 1917: TEKEL, Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.
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