helek

/ˈheɪlɪk/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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noun

"For calendrical calculations, the day begins at 6 P.M., which is designated 0 hours. Hours are divided into 1080 halakim; thus one helek is 3 1/3 seconds."
"By some estimates the mean lunation was actually 29.5 days and 793 halakim somewhere around the beginning of the Common Era."

Borrowed from Hebrew חֵלֶק (ḥēleq).

halakim (plural) chelek (alternative)

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How do you pronounce helek?

The recorded pronunciation is /ˈheɪlɪk/.

What does helek mean?

Where does helek come from?

It is traced to Hebrew.

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