Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #31660 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

shekellshekel

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it: 136 times in 42 works
Consistency: 86.6% (136 of 157)
Reach if approved: ~167 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: shekel
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 159 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (136 changes in 42 works, 86.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 136)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… heauenly …ouse in which wee dwell by faith, not talents of gold, or the shekellshekel of siluer, but a pure and willing minde, as it were, a golden inhabitant …
With rule
… heauenly …ouse in which wee dwell by faith, not talents of gold, or the shekellshekel of siluer, but a pure and willing minde, as it were, a golden inhabitant …
Robert Horne · The Christian Governor in the Commonwealth and Private Families · Open in the reader
Printed
… nigh, by the eſtimation of the ſhekellshekel, which they reckoned by, [for a common ſhekellshekel was as much as twentie pence with vs, and therefore eleuen hundred want little …
With rule
… nigh, by the eſtimation of the ſhekellshekel, which they reckoned by, [for a common ſhekellshekel was as much as twentie pence with vs, and therefore eleuen hundred want little …
Richard Rogers · Commentary on Judges · p. 738 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the ſhekellshekel great, they had a falſe ſhekellshekel which weighed more then the common ſhekellshekel did, and they weighed the ſhekellshekel of the buyer by this ſhekellshekel; and becauſe …
With rule
… the ſhekellshekel great, they had a falſe ſhekellshekel which weighed more then the common ſhekellshekel did, and they weighed the ſhekellshekel of the buyer by this ſhekellshekel; and becauſe …
John Weemes · Exposition of the Moral Law · p. 229 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Sabbath, that we may ſet foorth wheate, and make the Epha ſmall, and the ſhekellshekel great, and falſifie the weights by deceit? and buy the poore for ſiluer, and …
With rule
… Sabbath, that we may ſet foorth wheate, and make the Epha ſmall, and the ſhekellshekel great, and falſifie the weights by deceit? and buy the poore for ſiluer, and …
John Dod · Exposition of Proverbs 11-12 · p. 91 · Open in the reader
Printed
… secondly, with the learned Cameron, you rather conceive to be here meant the halfe shekellshekel, which by prescript of the Ceremoniall Law, Exod. 30. was by the Jewes to be …
With rule
… secondly, with the learned Cameron, you rather conceive to be here meant the halfe shekellshekel, which by prescript of the Ceremoniall Law, Exod. 30. was by the Jewes to be …
Henry Jeanes · Mixture of Scholastical Divinity with Practical Part 2 · p. 150 · Open in the reader
Printed
Then that ſame ſhekellshekel that we reade oft of in Scripture, it had two figures upon it; it …
With rule
Then that ſame ſhekellshekel that we reade oft of in Scripture, it had two figures upon it; it …
Thomas Westfield · Englands Face in Israels Glass · p. 33 · Open in the reader
Printed
… be gone that we may ſet forth wheat, making the Ephah ſmall and the ſhekellshekel great? They ſleep not except they have done miſchief, they eat the bread of …
With rule
… be gone that we may ſet forth wheat, making the Ephah ſmall and the ſhekellshekel great? They ſleep not except they have done miſchief, they eat the bread of …
Christopher Blackwood · Expositions Upon Matthew 1-10 · p. 152 · Open in the reader
Printed
… any other forraine Princes, the Maiſters of their Synagogues uſed to gather this halfe ſhekellshekel of them yea…ely, and ſend it to Ieruſalem to the high Prieſt. This …
With rule
… any other forraine Princes, the Maiſters of their Synagogues uſed to gather this halfe ſhekellshekel of them yea…ely, and ſend it to Ieruſalem to the high Prieſt. This …
John Weemes · Explication of the Judicial Laws of Moses · p. 51 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (21)

6 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 15 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Three Sermons A03308

Printed
… old Law things in the ſanctuarie were double to that which was common, the ShekellShekel of the ſanctuary twice ſo weightie as the common ſhekellshekel, the cubit of the …
With rule
… old Law things in the ſanctuarie were double to that which was common, the ShekellShekel of the ſanctuary twice ſo weightie as the common ſhekellshekel, the cubit of the …
Samuel Hieron · Three Sermons · p. 14 · Open in the reader

Lectures Upon John 4 A03342

Printed
… be done, that wee may set forth wheat, making the Ephah small and the ShekellShekel great, and with them, Mal. 1. 3. Behold what a wearines is it▪ What a tedious …
With rule
… be done, that wee may set forth wheat, making the Ephah small and the ShekellShekel great, and with them, Mal. 1. 3. Behold what a wearines is it▪ What a tedious …
Arthur Hildersham · Lectures Upon John 4 · p. 265 · Open in the reader

The Schools Guarded A45342

Printed
… among the Hebrews, as the Mite, the Quadrans, the Gerah, Didrachmum, Stater, Denarius, a ShekellShekel, a Talent, &c. Interpreters vary much about them: those that have done best both …
With rule
… among the Hebrews, as the Mite, the Quadrans, the Gerah, Didrachmum, Stater, Denarius, a ShekellShekel, a Talent, &c. Interpreters vary much about them: those that have done best both …
Thomas Hall · The Schools Guarded · p. 123 · Open in the reader

Works of Joseph Hall A68126

Printed
… fine flowre be ſold for a Shekel, and two meaſures of Barly for a ShekellShekel in the gate of Samaria: Miſerable Iſrael now ſees an end of this hard …
With rule
… fine flowre be ſold for a Shekel, and two meaſures of Barly for a ShekellShekel in the gate of Samaria: Miſerable Iſrael now ſees an end of this hard …
Joseph Hall · Works of Joseph Hall · p. 1395 · Open in the reader

Exposition of the Laws of Moses A73378

Printed
… from twenty yeare old, even unto ſixty, was fifty Shekels of Silver, after the ShekellShekel of the ſanctuary; and the eſtimation of the female was thirty. Againe, from five …
With rule
… from twenty yeare old, even unto ſixty, was fifty Shekels of Silver, after the ShekellShekel of the ſanctuary; and the eſtimation of the female was thirty. Againe, from five …
John Weemes · Exposition of the Laws of Moses · p. 124 · Open in the reader
Printed
… there is no vowell ſubjoyned as we may ſee in the forme of the ShekellShekel ſet downe by Arias Montanus, Beza, and Villalpand upon Ezekiel.
With rule
… there is no vowell ſubjoyned as we may ſee in the forme of the ShekellShekel ſet downe by Arias Montanus, Beza, and Villalpand upon Ezekiel.
John Weemes · Exposition of the Laws of Moses · p. 124 · Open in the reader