תְּקֵל

Biblical Aramaic

shekel — used 2 times in the Aramaic chapters of the Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

Meaning

OpenScriptures lexical index

shekel tree →

Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תְּקֵל: shekel tree →

The whole BDB entry

n.[m.] shekel (v. BH שֶׁקֶל; 𝔗 תִּקְלָא);—abs. ת׳ Dn 5:25, 27; v. מְנֵא and reff.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates); Jastrow: none

Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: teqel (2).

In the verses

Daniel 5:27 · tree →

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.

Daniel 5:25 · tree →

וּדְנָ֥ה כְתָבָ֖א דִּ֣י רְשִׁ֑ים מְנֵ֥א מְנֵ֖א תְּקֵ֥ל וּפַרְסִֽין׃

Word for word: and this [is].the writing which it.was.inscribed mene mene teqel and pharsin

JPS 1917: And this is the writing that was inscribed: MENE MENE, TEKEL UPHARSIN.

On Mova

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Trees and pragmatics of its meanings: every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).

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