בֶּקַעbeqaʻ
fraction, half, i.e.
Pronunciation: beh'-kah · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H1235
Meanings
half-shekel, a weight (Genesis 24:22; Exodus 38:26)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 2 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 24:22 Then at last, when the camels had finished drinking, he took out a gold ring for her nose and two large gold bracelets for her wrists.
- Exodus 38:26 This silver came from the tax collected from each man registered in the census. (The tax is one beka, which is half a shekel, based on the sanctuary shekel.) The tax was collected from 603,550 men who had reached their twentieth birthday.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).