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# בֶּקַע

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1235

**half** — used 2 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

half [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1235/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בֶּ֫קַע: half [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1235/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] fraction, half, i.e. half-shekel, a weight; בֶּקַע מִשְׁקָלוֹ Gn 24:22, cf. Hesychius in LagGes. Abh. 199, 1. 18 βακαίον \[Lag βέκαον\] μέτρον τι; v. also בֶּקַע Ex 38:26 (= מַחֲצִית הַשֶּׁקֶל).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[was\] a beka (1); a beka (1).

## In the verses

[Genesis 24:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.24.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.24.22/#tree)

וַיְהִ֗י כַּאֲשֶׁ֨ר כִּלּ֤וּ הַגְּמַלִּים֙ לִשְׁתּ֔וֹת וַיִּקַּ֤ח הָאִישׁ֙ נֶ֣זֶם זָהָ֔ב בֶּ֖קַע מִשְׁקָל֑וֹ וּשְׁנֵ֤י צְמִידִים֙ עַל־יָדֶ֔יהָ עֲשָׂרָ֥ה זָהָ֖ב מִשְׁקָלָֽם׃

*Word for word:* and it.was when they.had.finished the camels to drink and he.took the man a.ring of.gold \[was\].a.beka weight its and two bracelets on hands her \[was\].ten gold weight their

*JPS 1917:* And it came to pass, as the camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden ring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold;

[Exodus 38:26](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.38.26/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.38.26/#tree)

בֶּ֚קַע לַגֻּלְגֹּ֔לֶת מַחֲצִ֥ית הַשֶּׁ֖קֶל בְּשֶׁ֣קֶל הַקֹּ֑דֶשׁ לְכֹ֨ל הָעֹבֵ֜ר עַל־הַפְּקֻדִ֗ים מִבֶּ֨ן עֶשְׂרִ֤ים שָׁנָה֙ וָמַ֔עְלָה לְשֵׁשׁ־מֵא֥וֹת אֶ֙לֶף֙ וּשְׁלֹ֣שֶׁת אֲלָפִ֔ים וַחֲמֵ֥שׁ מֵא֖וֹת וַחֲמִשִּֽׁים׃

*Word for word:* a.beka for the head the.half of the.shekel by the.shekel of the.holy.place for every (the).\[one who\].passed.over to \[those\] enrolled from a.son of.twenty year\[s\] and upward upwards to six hundred(s) thousand and three thousand(s) and five hundred(s) and fifty

*JPS 1917:* a beka a head, that is, half a shekel, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for every one that passed over to them that are numbered, from twenty years old and upward, for six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty men.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1235.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1235/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).