הֶכְרַע m. (כָּרַע Hif.) 1) customary additional weight in retailing, boot, v. גֵּירוּמִים. B. Bath. 89ᵃ. Ker. 5ᵃ בה׳ הוא שוקל וכ׳ must he weigh (the frank incense) with boot or exactly (v. עַיִן)? Snh. 102ᵃ אחד מכ"ד בה׳ ליטרא one twenty fourth of the overweight of a litra (a minute portion). —2) (Gramm.) decision as to the junction of a word with the preceding or the following word (v. next w.), construction, syntax. Yoma 52ᵃ in five verses אין להם ה׳ the grammatical construction is undecided; Gen. R. s. 80; Tanḥ. B’shall. 26; Mekh. B’shall., Amalek 1; a. e.—Pl. הֶכְרֵיעִים. Y. Meg. IV, 74ᵈ bot. (ref. to Neh. VIII, 8 ויבינו) אלו הה׳ that means the grammatical constructions.