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title: בֶּקַע — half · The Tanakh dictionary
description: בֶּקַע (1235), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: half. BDB 1906: half. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# בֶּקַע

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«בֶּקַע» in the Tanakh dictionary: **half** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 2 times · **Key:** 1235 · **BDB:** בֶּ֫קַע

### Glosses

\[was\].a.beka (1); a.beka (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

half [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1235/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

half [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1235/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] fraction, half, i.e. half-shekel, a weight; בֶּקַע מִשְׁקָלוֹ Gn 24:22, cf. Hesychius in LagGes. Abh. 199, 1. 18 βακαίον \[Lag βέκαον\] μέτρον τι; v. also בֶּקַע Ex 38:26 (= מַחֲצִית הַשֶּׁקֶל).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «בֶּקַע» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1235/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Genesis 24:22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.24.22/)

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וַיְהִ֗י כַּאֲשֶׁ֨ר כִּלּ֤וּ הַגְּמַלִּים֙ לִשְׁתּ֔וֹת וַיִּקַּ֤ח הָאִישׁ֙ נֶ֣זֶם זָהָ֔ב בֶּ֖קַע מִשְׁקָל֑וֹ וּשְׁנֵ֤י צְמִידִים֙ עַל־יָדֶ֔יהָ עֲשָׂרָ֥ה זָהָ֖ב מִשְׁקָלָֽם׃

*Word for word:* and it.was when they.had.finished the camels to drink and he.took the man a.ring of.gold \[was\].a.beka weight its and two bracelets on hands her \[was\].ten gold weight their

*JPS 1917:* And it came to pass, as the camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden ring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold;

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[Exodus 38:26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.38.26/)

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בֶּ֚קַע לַגֻּלְגֹּ֔לֶת מַחֲצִ֥ית הַשֶּׁ֖קֶל בְּשֶׁ֣קֶל הַקֹּ֑דֶשׁ לְכֹ֨ל הָעֹבֵ֜ר עַל־הַפְּקֻדִ֗ים מִבֶּ֨ן עֶשְׂרִ֤ים שָׁנָה֙ וָמַ֔עְלָה לְשֵׁשׁ־מֵא֥וֹת אֶ֙לֶף֙ וּשְׁלֹ֣שֶׁת אֲלָפִ֔ים וַחֲמֵ֥שׁ מֵא֖וֹת וַחֲמִשִּֽׁים׃

*Word for word:* a.beka for the head the.half of the.shekel by the.shekel of the.holy.place for every (the).\[one who\].passed.over to \[those\] enrolled from a.son of.twenty year\[s\] and upward upwards to six hundred(s) thousand and three thousand(s) and five hundred(s) and fifty

*JPS 1917:* a beka a head, that is, half a shekel, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for every one that passed over to them that are numbered, from twenty years old and upward, for six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty men.

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