Strong’s H1235 · Hebrew
בֶּקַע
beqaʻ · beh'-kah
Origin from בָּקַע (H1234);
Meaning a section (half) of ashekel, i.e. a beka (a weight and a coin)
In the King James Version bekah, half a shekel.
In 2 verses of the King James Version
- Genesis 24:22And it came to pass, as the camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden earring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold;
- Exodus 38:26A bekah for every man, that is, half a shekel, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for every one that went to be numbered, from twenty years old and upward, for six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty men.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.