shekel

noun3

1. •
   A currency unit of both ancient and modern Israel.

   • So David bought the threshingfloor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver. — 1769
2. •
   (slang) Money.

   • Her gownlet cost five hundred beans; / Her furs, four figures in a row; / Her hat removed from papa's jeans / A hundred shekels more or so. — 1914
3. •
   (historical) An ancient unit of weight equivalent to one-fiftieth of a mina.

   • And it came to pass, as the camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden earring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold — 1769