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tql, tqlˀ (tqel, teqlā) n.m. shekel
√ tql vb.
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shekel
Common Aramaic
Sheikh Hamad.4:2↗ ksp šqln 3 ; TAD B1.1 R13↗ כסף ש 2 תקל אבד ות[ק]ל קים‏ : two shekels: a "lost" shekel and a permanent shekel ; TgO Ex38:26↗ תִקלָא לְגוּלגֻלתָא‏ : shekel per head ; PTŠeq 46.c:27[2]↗ בתקלין חדתין ٠٠٠ בתקלין עתיקין‏ : new (half-)shekels, old (half-)shekels ; BT Bek 50a(26)↗ ואיכא דוכתא דקרו ליה לקינטריא תיקלא‏ : there is a place where they call a centenarius a shekel ; TgIIChron 3:9↗ ומתקל למסמרייה לתקלין‏ : the weight for the nails by shekels
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weight
JBA
BT BM 80a(33)↗ תיקלא כתיקלא וניפחא הוי תוספת‏ : weight is just weight while volume becomes additional
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Sam. also דקל ; regularly written with shin in OA and OfA and there also abbreviated with a single shin
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Note that in the Palestinian pentateuchal targumic tradition the equivalent for shekel is slˁ, slˁˀ n.m./f. : "sela" in spite of texts such as that cited here wherein the two terms exist side by side.
Page refs. in other dictionaries: LS2: 1661[831]DJPA: 589aDJBA: 1206aJastrow: 1691J. Payne-Smith: 618Levy Ch-W: 2:551Tal Sam: 960DNWSI: 1187Qumran: 257
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