בֶּקַע
beqaʻ · H1235 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences
Thing
- BeqaWeights2 verses
Meanings
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a half shekel, beka
Weight of approximately 5.75 grams; equals 10 gerahs; 2 bekas make up 1 shekel; used for weighing gold and silver
ExamplesGenesis 24:22 When the camels had finished drinking, the man took a gold ring weighing a half-shekel, and two bracelets for her wrists weighing ten shekels in gold,
Exodus 38:26 a beka a head (that is, half a shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary), assessed to each one who passed over to those who were counted, from twenty years old and upward, for 603,550 men.
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- מַחֲצִיתhalf 1
What it is said to bePredicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- גֻּלְגֹּלֶתskull 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- מִשְׁקָלweight 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Semantic domains 1 entry
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- בֶּקַע denotes a bekah, a unit of weight equal to half a shekel, as in Genesis 24:22's "a gold ring weighing a half-shekel" (בֶּקַע מִשְׁקָלוֹ), naming a specific standard of measurement.
Word family 5 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1235. beqa בֶּ֫קַע noun [masculine] fraction, half, i.e. half-shekel, a weight;…
בֶּ֫קַע noun [masculine] fraction, half, i.e. half-shekel, a weight; מִשְׁקָלוֺ בֶּקַע Gen 24:22, compare Hesychius in LagGes. Abh 199, 1. 18 βακαίον [Lag βέκαον] μέρον τι; see also בֶּקַע Exo 38:26 (= הַשֶּׁקֶל מַחֲצִית).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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