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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.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H1235 · Hebrew
- Definition
- a section (half) of ashekel, i.e. a beka (a weight and a coin)
- Derivation
- from H1234 (בָּקַע);
- KJV renderings
- bekah, half a shekel.
- Grammar
- בֶּ֚קַע — common noun, masculine, singular, absolute
- Usage
- Occurs 2 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 24:22
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read בֶּקַע here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.