Meaning of helek | Babel Free

Definitions

A unit of time equal to an eighteenth of a minute (3⅓ seconds)

Judaism

Examples

“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.”

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