Strong's Hebrew · H1235

בֶּקַע

beqaʻ · beh'-kah

bekah, half a shekel.

Definition

a section (half) of ashekel, i.e. a beka (a weight and a coin)

Derivation

from H1234 (בָּקַע);

Appears 2 times in Scripture

Exodus 38:26

a beka per person, that is, half a shekel, according to the sanctuary shekel, from everyone twenty years of age or older who had crossed over to be numbered, a total of 603,550 men.

Genesis 24:22

And after the camels had finished drinking, he took out a gold ring weighing a beka, and two gold bracelets for her wrists weighing ten shekels.

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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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