Usually means: Ancient unit of weight, currency.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. shekel: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. shekel: Merriam-Webster
  3. shekel: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. shekel: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. shekel: Collins English Dictionary
  6. shekel: Vocabulary.com
  7. Shekel, shekel: Wordnik
  8. shekel: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. shekel: Wiktionary
  10. shekel: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. shekel: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. shekel: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Shekel, shekel: Dictionary.com
  14. shekel: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Shekel: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Shekel: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. shekel: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. Shekel: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. shekel: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. shekel: FreeDictionary.org
  21. shekel: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. shekel: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. shekel: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  24. shekel: Rhymezone

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shekel: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shekel: Encyclopedia

Religion (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Shekel: Easton Bible
  2. World English Bible Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Shekel: Smith's Bible Dictionary
  4. SHEKEL: Glossary of Biblical English of the Authorised Version of the HOLY BIBLE

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. shekel: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. shekel: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See shekels as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A currency unit of both ancient and modern Israel.
noun:  (slang) Money.
noun:  (historical) An ancient unit of weight equivalent to one-fiftieth of a mina.

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