What Does “Shekel” Mean in the Bible?
Measure
A Jewish weight, and a silver coin: about 11 grams, less than half an ounce.
Where it appears in the Bible
Genesis 23:15
What the Bible says
Genesis 23:15
My lord, hear me. The ground which thou desirest, is worth four hundred sicles of silver: this is the price between me and thee: but what is this? bury thy dead.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), public domain.
Source: Dictionary.com, “shekel”