בֶּקַע (beqaʿ) is a Hebrew noun meaning half. It appears 2 times in 2 books of the Hebrew Bible (Strong's H1235).
בֶּ֫קַע noun, masculine: half
fraction, half, i.e. half-shekel, a weight
Strong's H1235 בֶּקַע: a section (half) of a shekel, i.e. a beka (a weight and a coin)
KJV:bekah, half a shekel.
Meanings: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906) and Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1890), public domain, via the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0). TWOT numbers for reference only.
Root family 271: בָּקַע bāqaʿ — cleave, break open, through; cleave open, break through, into; be cleft, rent open, be broken into; cut to pieces, rend open; be ripped open; break into; the city was broken into; burst, themselves, open, cleave asunder; rend…
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