Nihoner

ベか

べかん · bekan

auxiliary verb 連体形

is the form before a noun of ベし — Vega (star in the constellation Lyra), Alpha Lyrae.

Classical Japanese — you’ll mostly meet it in older texts and set phrases
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ベし ベか

Form before a noun (). In modern Japanese it looks like the plain form; it sits right before a noun: 食べる人 (a person who eats).

This spelling is the version with ん (sound change before で/だ): 読ん → 読んで.

ベし is a classical japanese conjugation, so it follows that pattern.

Other forms and spellings

べけべかべくべしベジぺしペシべけれべからうべからふベからふべからべかんべかるべうべかり
form before a noun of ベし