Strong's Hebrew · H1235
בֶּקַע
beqaʻ · beh'-kah
Definitiona section (half) of ashekel, i.e. a beka (a weight and a coin)
Derivationfrom H1234 (בָּקַע);
KJV usagebekah, half a shekel.
Occurrences2 in the KJV · 2 verses
בֶּקַע in Scripture
Genesis 24:22
And 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 38:26
A 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 .