A half-shekel; in weight, five pennyweights; in money, about twenty- five cents. This sum each Israelite over twenty years old was to pay as a poll tax for the temple service, Exo 30:13 .<\/p>\n
(, be’ka, cleft, i.e. part), a Jewish weight of early use (Exo 38:26), being half a SHEKEL SEE SHEKEL (q.v.), the unit of value<\/p>\n
(Gen 24:22, half-shekel). SEE METROLOGY. Every Israelite paid one bekah (about 31 cents) yearly for the support and repairs of the Temple (Exo 30:13). SEE DIDRACHMA.<\/p>\n
Both the name and its explanation, “a half shekel,” are given in Ex. 38:26<\/span>. The word properly means a “division,” a “part.” (R.V., “beka.”)<\/p>\n Bekah, half a shekel [WEIGHTS AND MEASURES]<\/p>\n [Be’kah] See WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.<\/p>\n A half shekel, about 31 cents.<\/p>\n Exo 38:26<\/span> <\/p>\n Be’kah. See Weights and Measures.<\/p>\n BEKAH A half-shekel; in weight, five pennyweights; in money, about twenty- five cents. This sum each Israelite over twenty years old was to pay as a poll tax for the temple service, Exo 30:13 . Fuente: American Tract Society Bible Dictionary Bekah (, be’ka, cleft, i.e. part), a Jewish weight of early use (Exo 38:26), … Continue reading “Bekah”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Fuente: Easton’s Bible Dictionary<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Bekah<\/h2>\n
Fuente: Popular Cyclopedia Biblical Literature<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Bekah<\/h2>\n
Fuente: Concise Bible Dictionary <\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Bekah<\/h2>\n
Fuente: Nave’s Topical Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Bekah<\/h2>\n
Fuente: Smith’s Bible Dictionary<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"