English Explanatory Dictionary

beka

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. an ancient Biblical unit of weight, half a shekel

Word forms

beka bekas bekah

Etymology

From Hebrew בֶּקַע (beqáʿ, “half-sheqel”, literally “broken”).

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