1 Samuel 17:7
17:7 The shaft 1 of his spear was like a weaver’s beam, and the iron point of his spear weighed six hundred shekels. 2 His shield bearer was walking before him.
1 tn The translation follows the Qere and many medieval Hebrew mss in reading “wood,” rather than the “arrow” (the reading of the Kethib).
2 sn That is, about fifteen or sixteen pounds.