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Bekah

Half a shekel Bekah is rendered in the installed Bible Names resource as “half a shekel.” This unified study connects 6 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.

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  • Historical Reference: Nave’s Topical Bible — Public domain
  • Historical Reference: Hitchcock’s Bible Names Dictionary (1869)
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Study at a glance

Subject type
Subject
Strong’s
H1235
Hebrew
בֶּקַע · beqaʻ
Name meaning
half a shekel According to Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Strong’s and original-language information

Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon

בֶּקַע

H1235
Transliteration
beqaʻ
Pronunciation
beh'-kah
Language
Hebrew
Indexed occurrences
2

Glosses

bekah, half a shekel.

Lexicon definition

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

Greek lexical coverage

No safely matched Greek Strong’s entry

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The installed lexicons do not contain a sufficiently exact Greek word-level match for this study. UNLEARN leaves this language unassigned instead of displaying an unrelated Strong’s record.

Complete dictionary entries

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Bekah

half a shekel

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Topical Bible

Nave's Topical Bible

BEKAH

Entry:
Nave’s Topical Bible references for BEKAH.

Indexed references: 1

Scripture references:
Exodus 38:26

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Bible Names

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Bekah

Meaning:
half a shekel

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Topic

BEKAH

Nave’s Topical Bible references for BEKAH.

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Dictionary

Bekah

half a shekel

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Dictionary

Weights

Reduced to English troy-weight, the Hebrew weights were: (1.) The gerah (Lev. 27:25; Num. 3:47), a Hebrew word, meaning a grain or kernel, and hence a small weight. It was the twentieth part of a shekel, and equal to 12 grains. (2.) Bekah (Ex. 38:26), meaning "a half" i.e., "half a shekel," equal to 5 pennyweight. (3.) Shekel, "a weight," only in the Old Testament, and frequently in its original form (Gen. 23:15, 16; Ex. 21:32; 30:13, 15; 38:24-29, etc.). It was equal to 10 pennyweight. (4.) Ma'neh, "a part" or "portion" (Ezek. 45:12), equal to 60 shekels, i.e., to 2 lbs. 6 oz. (5.) Talent of silver (2 Kings 5:22), equal to 3,000 shekels, i.e., 125 lbs. (6.) Talent of gold (Ex. 25:39), double the preceding, i.e., 250 lbs.

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All Scripture references2 references

Exodus 1

Exodus 38:26

2 Kings 1

2 Kings 5:22

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