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Reference: Bekah

American

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, Ex 30:13.

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Easton

Both the name and its explanation, "a half shekel," are given in Ex. 38:26. The word properly means a "division," a "part." (R.V., "beka.")

Morish

Be'kah

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Smith

Be'kah.

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