Definition of "shekel" in İngilizce

noun

1. A currency unit of both ancient and modern Israel.

   • So David bought the threshingfloor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.

2. (slang) Money.

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

   • And it came to pass, as the camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden earring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold;