Lexical Summary beqa: half Original Word: בֶּקַעTransliteration: beqa Phonetic Spelling: (beh'-kah) Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: half Meaning: a section, of a, shekel, a beka Strong's Concordance bekah, half a shekel From baqa'; a section (half) of a shekel, i.e. A beka (a weight and a coin) -- bekah, half a shekel. see HEBREW baqa' Brown-Driver-Briggs H1235. beqa בֶּ֫קַע noun [masculine] fraction, half, i.e. half-shekel, a weight; מִשְׁקָלוֺ בֶּקַע Genesis 24:22, compare Hesychius in LagGes. Abh 199, 1. 18 βακαίον [Lag βέκαον] μέρον τι; see also בֶּקַע Exodus 38:26 (= הַשֶּׁקֶל מַחֲצִית). |