Etymology

beka

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Today it means: an ancient Biblical unit of weight, half a shekel Full definition →

Hebrew בֶּקַע
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  1. Hebrew · borrowed fromבֶּקַע“half-sheqel”
  2. English todaybeka

From Hebrew בֶּקַע (beqáʿ, “half-sheqel”, literally “broken”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.