shekels
- 1Plural of shekel.
The merchant counted out the silver shekels before sealing the deal.
Tourists exchange their dollars for shekels at the airport kiosk.
Note
One plural carries three quite different things. In ancient contexts shekels can be weights, each one a fiftieth of a mina, so silver reckoned in shekels was often weighed out rather than counted as coins. Shekels are also the currency of ancient and modern Israel, and in slang simply money of any kind. Context decides which is meant. A historian's shekels are measures or coins, while a joking speaker's are just cash.
shekels is a form of shekel
shekel, noun: A unit of currency used in both ancient Israel and the modern Israeli state. Full entry
- Spelling
- shekel → shekels: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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