# בֶּקַע (beqa)

Israeli respelling: be-qa. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H1235. 2 Old Testament occurrences.

a section (half) of ashekel, i.e. a beka (a weight and a coin)

King James renderings: bekah, half a shekel.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/beqa-h1235

## Occurrences

- [Genesis 24:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/24/22) — And it came to pass, as the camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden earring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her…
- [Exodus 38:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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…