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 .

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Be'kah. See Weights And Measures.

Easton's Bible Dictionary

Exodus 38:26

Holman Bible Dictionary

Beka

Morrish Bible Dictionary

See WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.

Webster's Dictionary

(n.) Half a shekel.

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).

Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblial Literature

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