shekel

/หˆสƒษ›kษ™l/

IPA: /SH EH1 K AH0 L/

noun
  1. 1

    A currency unit of both ancient and modern Israel.

  2. 2

    (often antisemitic) Money, especially that purportedly owned or distributed as bribes by Jewish elites.

  3. 3

    An ancient unit of weight equivalent to one-fiftieth of a mina.

Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/shekel