Study it in the app“a beka per head, half a shekel, by the shekel of the sanctuary, for everyone who passed over to those counted, from twenty years old and upward, for six hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty.”
a bekaבֶּקַעper head,לַגֻּלְגֹּלֶתhalfמַחֲצִיתa shekel,הַשֶּׁקֶלby the shekelבְּשֶׁקֶלof the sanctuary,הַקֹּדֶשׁfor everyoneלְכֹל הָwho passed overעֹבֵרto those counted,עַל הַפְּקֻדִיםfrom twentyמִבֶּן עֶשְׂרִיםyears oldשָׁנָהand upward,וָמַעְלָהfor six hundredלְשֵׁשׁ מֵאוֹתand threeאֶלֶף וּשְׁלֹשֶׁתthousandאֲלָפִיםfive hundredוַחֲמֵשׁ מֵאוֹתand fifty.וַחֲמִשִּׁים
beka
Beka: half a shekel, about 6 grams.
Where else “beka” appearsper head
One by one, when counting people.
Where else “gulgolet” appearshalf
One of the two equal parts of something, like «half a shekel» or half of a tribe.
Where else “machatsit” appearsshekel
Shekel: a weight of about 11 grams. Since there were no coins, silver was weighed, so a shekel is also an amount of money.
Where else “shekel” appearssanctuary
The sacred enclosure where God was served: the sanctuary and its innermost room.
Where else “kodesh” appearspass
To get over a river, or go through a land.
Where else “over” appearscount
To list a people, how many there are.
Where else “pekudim” appearsyears old
To give someone's age, how long they have lived.
Where else “ben” appearstwenty
Twenty; also "twentieth".
Where else “esrim” appearsyear
Each full turn of the seasons, by which time is counted.
Where else “shana” appearsabove
Upward, above; with ages, "twenty years old or more".
Where else “mala” appearssix
Six; also "sixth".
Where else “shesh” appearshundred
The amount of one hundred; with other numbers it forms two hundred, three hundred and the rest.
Where else “meot” appearsthousand
One thousand: a large, round number.
Where else “elef” appearsthree
A quantity of three: three persons or things together.
Where else “sheloshet” appearsfive
Five.
Where else “chamesh” appearsfifty
Fifty.
Where else “chamishim” appearsIt is the same number as in the census of Numbers 1:46. A beka was half a shekel: the payment commanded in Exodus 30:13.
25And the silver of those counted of the community was a hundred talents and a thousand seven hundred and seventy-five shekels, by the shekel of the sanctuary:
26 · This verse (above)
27And the hundred talents of silver were for casting the bases of the sanctuary and the bases of the veil; a hundred bases for the hundred talents, a talent per base.
