or BEKAH, a Jewish coin, being half a shekel. In Dr Arbuthnot's table of reductions, the bekah amounts to 13\frac{1}{2}d.; in Dr Prideaux's computation to 1s. 6d. Every Israelite paid an hundred bekahs a head annually for the support of the temple.
or BEKAH, a Jewish coin, being half a shekel. In Dr Arbuthnot's table of reductions, the bekah amounts to 13\frac{1}{2}d.; in Dr Prideaux's computation to 1s. 6d. Every Israelite paid an hundred bekahs a head annually for the support of the temple.