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Examples of shekels
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The ministry has just 35m shekels to dole out to 17 different musical ensembles.
From the economist.com
Iranian marble typically sells for about 250 shekels, or $70, per square meter.
From the online.wsj.com
I cringed at the thought of thousands of shekels worth of bananas going to waste.
From the guardian.co.uk
A currency swap was made to exchange the proceeds to shekels from dollars, it said.
From the bloomberg.com
I had spent literally thousands of shekels on free dating sites at that time.
From the iftomm2003.com
Keep this in mind in terms of wardrobe needs as well as saving a few shekels.
From the suntimes.com
And as it is, we'll have to wait 10 or 15 years to see his face on any new shekels.
From the latitude.blogs.nytimes.com
The board also approved spending up to 50 million shekels to buy back stock.
From the bloomberg.com
Earlier in September, Koor said it would post a capital gain of 281 million shekels.
From the hemscott.com
- The basic unit of money in Israel
- (shekels) boodle: informal terms for money
- Shekel (Akkadian: u0161iqlu or siqlu; Hebrew: u05E9u05E7u05DCu200Eu200E, pl. shekels or sheqalim) is any of several ancient units of weight or of currency. Initially, it may have referred to a weight of barley. This shekel was about 180 grains (11 grams or .35 troy ounces).
- A currency unit of both ancient and modern Israel; money; An ancient unit of weight equivalent to one-fiftieth of a mina
- Coin of ancient Judaea, Phoenicia and modern Israel.
- Weight, the common standard both of weight and value among the Hebrews. It is estimated at 220 English grains, or a little more than half an ounce avoirdupois. The "shekel of the sanctuary" (Exo 30:13; Num 3:47) was equal to twenty gerahs (Eze 45:12). ...
- Standard monetary unit of Israel - 1 New Shekel (NIS) = 100 agorot.
- The name of a coin whose weight equal the weight of 20 gerahs (beans or grains).
- An ancient weight and money unit, or coin. Hebrew shekel for gold about 252 2/3 grains (about $10.88)
