Bekah

== American Tract Society Bible Dictionary ==

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, Exodus 30:13 .

== Easton's Bible Dictionary == Exodus 38:26 == Holman Bible Dictionary == Beka == Hitchcock's Bible Names == == Morrish Bible Dictionary ==

See WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.

== Smith's Bible Dictionary ==

Be'kah. See Weights And Measures.

== Webster's Dictionary ==

(n.) Half a shekel.

== Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblial Literature ==

Be´kah, half a shekel [WEIGHTS AND MEASURES]

== Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature ==

(בֶּקִע, be'ka, cleft, i.e. part), a Jewish weight of early use (Exodus 38:26), being half a SHEKEL (See Shekel) (q.v.), the unit of value

(Genesis 24:22, "half-shekel"). (See Metrology). Every Israelite paid one bekah (about 31 cents) yearly for the support and repairs of the Temple (Exodus 30:13). (See Didrachma).