Beck, Beckon
Beck, Beckon
bek, bek’n (, neuma): This word from neuo, to nod, beckon, make a sign by moving the head or eyes (Luk 5:7; Joh 13:24; Act 21:40; Act 24:10), occurs only in 2 Macc 8:18, Almighty God who at a beck can cast down both them that come against us, and also all the world, the Revised Version (British and American), able at a beck. So Shak, troops of soldiers at their beck; nod is now generally used.