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Lexicon :: Strong's H1058 - bāḵâ

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בָּכָה
Transliteration
bāḵâ
Pronunciation
baw-kaw'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
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TWOT Reference: 243

Strong’s Definitions

בָּכָה bâkâh, baw-kaw'; a primitive root; to weep; generally to bemoan:—× at all, bewail, complain, make lamentation, × more, mourn, × sore, × with tears, weep.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 114x

The KJV translates Strong's H1058 in the following manner: weep (98x), bewail (5x), sore 3 (inf. for emphasis) mourned (2x), all 1 (inf), complain (1x), lamentation (1x), more 1 (inf.), weep over (1x), tears (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 114x
The KJV translates Strong's H1058 in the following manner: weep (98x), bewail (5x), sore 3 (inf. for emphasis) mourned (2x), all 1 (inf), complain (1x), lamentation (1x), more 1 (inf.), weep over (1x), tears (1x).

  1. to weep, bewail, cry, shed tears

    1. (Qal)

      1. to weep (in grief, humiliation, or joy)

      2. to weep bitterly (with cognate acc.)

      3. to weep upon (embrace and weep)

      4. to bewail

    2. (Piel) participle

      1. lamenting

      2. bewailing

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
בָּכָה bâkâh, baw-kaw'; a primitive root; to weep; generally to bemoan:—× at all, bewail, complain, make lamentation, × more, mourn, × sore, × with tears, weep.
STRONGS H1058: Abbreviations
† בָּכָה 114 verb weep, bewail (Arabic بَكَى, Aramaic בְּכָא, Txkb, Assyrian bakû ZimBP 23, 56, Ethiopic በከየ፡) —
Qal Perfect בּ׳ Genesis 43:14; Hosea 12:5; וּבָֽכְתָה consecutive Deuteronomy 21:13; בָּכִ֫יתִּי Job 30:25, etc.; Imperfect וַיֵּבְךְ Genesis 37:35 + 16 times (וַיֵּבְךְּ Genesis 27:28 etc.); 3rd person feminine singular תִּבְכֶּה 1 Samuel 1:10 + 2 times; וַתִּבְכֶּה 1 Samuel 1:7, וַתֵּבְךְּ Genesis 21:16 (where Greek Version of the LXX masculine compare Di) + 4 times; 2nd person masculine singular תִּבְכֶּה Isaiah 30:19; Ezekiel 24:16; וַתִּבְכֶּה 2 Kings 22:19, וַתֵּבְךְּ 2 Samuel 12:21; 2 Chronicles 34:27; 2nd person feminine singular תִּבְכִּי 1 Samuel 1:8; אֶבְכֶּה Judges 11:37 + 4 times; וָאֶבְכֶּה 2 Samuel 12:22 + 2 times; יִבְכּוּ Leviticus 10:6 + 3 times; יִבְכָּי֑וּן Job 31:38; Isaiah 33:7; 3rd person feminine plural תִּבְכֶּינָה Job 27:15; Psalm 78:64; וַתִּב׳ Ruth 1:9, 14, etc.; Imperative plural בְּכוּ Jeremiah 22:10; Joel 1:5; בְּכֶינָה 2 Samuel 1:24; Infinitive absolute בָּכוֺ Isaiah 30:19 + 3 times + Micah 1:10 (where read בְּעַכּוֺ, see עכו); בָּכֹה 1 Samuel 1:10 + 3 times; construct לִבְכּוֺת Genesis 43:30 + 3 times; לִבְכֹּתָהּ Genesis 23:2; Participle בֹּכֶה (בּוֺכֶה) Exodus 2:6 + 6 times; feminine singular בּוֺכִיָּה Lamentations 1:16; plural בֹּכִים (בּו׳) Ezra 3:12 +, etc.; —
1. weep (in grief, humiliation, or joy), absolute Genesis 42:24; Genesis 43:30 (twice in verse); Exodus 2:6; Numbers 11:4, 10; Numbers 14:1; 1 Samuel 1:7, 8, 10; 1 Samuel 11:5; 1 Samuel 30:4 (twice in verse); 2 Samuel 1:12; 2 Samuel 3:16; 2 Samuel 13:36; 2 Samuel 15:30 (twice in verse); 2 Samuel 19:1; 2 Samuel 19:2; 2 Kings 8:11, 12; Isaiah 30:19 (twice in verse); Jeremiah 41:6; Jeremiah 50:4; Ezekiel 24:16, 23; Lamentations 1:2; Zechariah 7:3; Joel 1:5; Joel 2:17; Psalm 78:64; Psalm 126:6; compare Psalm 69:11 (but on text see Che) Job 27:15; Ecclesiastes 3:4 (opposed to laugh שׂחק) Ezra 10:1; Nehemiah 8:9; Esther 8:3; once with inanimate subject Job 31:38 תְּלָמֶיהָ יִב׳ its furrows weep; on Nehemiah 1:4 יָשַׁבְתִּי וָאֶבְכֶּה compare Assyrian attašab abakî, Flood130ed. Dl Gu§ 77 HptBAS i. 145; of loud weeping נָשָׂא הַקּוֺל וַיִּב׳ Genesis 21:16; Genesis 27:38; Genesis 29:11; Judges 2:4; Judges 21:2; 1 Samuel 11:4; 1 Samuel 24:17; 2 Samuel 3:32; 2 Samuel 13:36; Job 2:12; Ruth 1:9, 14, compare בְּאָזְנֵי י׳ בּ׳ Numbers 11:18, also Job 30:31.
2. with accusative of congnate meaning with verb בְּכִי Judges 21:2; 2 Samuel 13:36; 2 Kings 20:3 = Isaiah 38:3, compare בִּבְכִי Isaiah 16:9, מִבְּכִי Jeremiah 48:32, & חַרְבֶּה בֶּכֶה בּ׳ Ezra 10:1; followed by קוֺל גָּדוֺל 2 Samuel 15:33, compare בקול גדול בּ׳ Ezra 3:12; weep bitterly מַר יִב׳ Isaiah 33:7; also with infinitive absolute weep intensely, grievously 1 Samuel 1:10; Jeremiah 22:10; Lamentations 1:2, compare Isaiah 30:19 & Micah 1:10 (but on text see above).
3. followed by עַל weep upon, i.e. embrace and weep, עַל־צואריו Genesis 45:14; Genesis 46:29; compare Genesis 45:15; Genesis 50:1; also עַ־פָּנָיו בּ׳ 2 Kings 13:14; see further Genesis 33:4; Genesis 45:14 & וַיִּבְכּוּ אִישׁ אֶת־רֵעֵהוּ 1 Samuel 20:41; also followed by עַל weep over, for Judges 11:37, 38; 2 Samuel 3:34; Lamentations 1:16; followed by אֶֹל־ 2 Samuel 1:24; 2 Samuel 3:32; Ezekiel 27:31; followed by לְ Jeremiah 22:10; Jeremiah 48:32; Job 30:25; followed by מִפְּנִי because of Jeremiah 13:17; followed by temporal clause (of occasion of weeping) Genesis 50:17; Psalm 137:1; Nehemiah 8:9.
4. followed by accusative bewail Genesis 23:2; Genesis 37:35; Genesis 50:3; Leviticus 10:6; Numbers 20:29; Deuteronomy 21:13; Deuteronomy 34:8; Jeremiah 8:23 [Jeremiah 9:1], compare Isaiah 16:9.
5. followed by עַל in sense of burden, annoy with weeping Numbers 11:13; Judges 14:16, 17 compare לִפְנֵי Numbers 11:20.
6. לִפְנֵי י׳ בּ׳ of penitent weeping Judges 20:23 (compare Be; see also Judges 21:2) Deuteronomy 1:45; 2 Kings 22:19; 2 Chronicles 34:27, compare also Numbers 25:6; joined with fasting Judges 20:26; 2 Samuel 12:21, 22 compare Ezra 10:1; so of weeping in anxious entreaty Hosea 4:5; on participle as proper name Judges 2:1, 5 see בֹּכִים below.
Pi. Participle feminine singular מְבַכָּה lament Jeremiah 31:25 followed by עַל; bewail, plural מְבַכּוֺת followed by accusative Ezekiel 8:14.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

21:16; 21:16; 23:2; 23:2; 27:28; 27:38; 29:11; 33:4; 37:35; 37:35; 42:24; 43:14; 43:30; 43:30; 45:14; 45:14; 45:15; 46:29; 50:1; 50:3; 50:17

Exodus

2:6; 2:6

Leviticus

10:6; 10:6

Numbers

11:4; 11:10; 11:13; 11:18; 11:20; 14:1; 20:29; 25:6

Deuteronomy

1:45; 21:13; 21:13; 34:8

Judges

2:1; 2:4; 2:5; 11:37; 11:37; 11:38; 14:16; 14:17; 20:23; 20:26; 21:2; 21:2; 21:2

Ruth

1:9; 1:9; 1:14; 1:14

1 Samuel

1:7; 1:7; 1:8; 1:8; 1:10; 1:10; 1:10; 1:10; 11:4; 11:5; 20:41; 24:17; 30:4

2 Samuel

1:12; 1:24; 1:24; 3:16; 3:32; 3:32; 3:34; 12:21; 12:21; 12:22; 12:22; 13:36; 13:36; 13:36; 15:30; 15:33; 19:1; 19:2

2 Kings

8:11; 8:12; 13:14; 20:3; 22:19; 22:19

2 Chronicles

34:27; 34:27

Ezra

3:12; 3:12; 10:1; 10:1; 10:1

Nehemiah

1:4; 8:9; 8:9

Esther

8:3

Job

2:12; 27:15; 27:15; 30:25; 30:25; 30:31; 31:38; 31:38

Psalms

69:11; 78:64; 78:64; 126:6; 137:1

Ecclesiastes

3:4

Isaiah

16:9; 16:9; 30:19; 30:19; 30:19; 30:19; 33:7; 33:7; 38:3

Jeremiah

9:1; 13:17; 22:10; 22:10; 22:10; 31:25; 41:6; 48:32; 48:32; 50:4

Lamentations

1:2; 1:2; 1:16; 1:16

Ezekiel

8:14; 24:16; 24:16; 24:23; 27:31

Hosea

4:5; 12:5

Joel

1:5; 1:5; 2:17

Micah

1:10; 1:10

Zechariah

7:3

H1058

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Strong's Number H1058 matches the Hebrew בָּכָה (bāḵâ),
which occurs 116 times in 100 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Gen 21:16–2Sa 3:34)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:16 - Then she went off and sat down about a bowshot away, for she thought, “I cannot watch the boy die.” And as she sat there, she[fn] began to sob.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:2 - She died at Kiriath Arba (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan, and Abraham went to mourn for Sarah and to weep over her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:38 - Esau said to his father, “Do you have only one blessing, my father? Bless me too, my father!” Then Esau wept aloud.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:11 - Then Jacob kissed Rachel and began to weep aloud.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:4 - But Esau ran to meet Jacob and embraced him; he threw his arms around his neck and kissed him. And they wept.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:35 - All his sons and daughters came to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. “No,” he said, “I will continue to mourn until I join my son in the grave.” So his father wept for him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:24 - He turned away from them and began to weep, but then came back and spoke to them again. He had Simeon taken from them and bound before their eyes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:30 - Deeply moved at the sight of his brother, Joseph hurried out and looked for a place to weep. He went into his private room and wept there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:14 - Then he threw his arms around his brother Benjamin and wept, and Benjamin embraced him, weeping.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:15 - And he kissed all his brothers and wept over them. Afterward his brothers talked with him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:29 - Joseph had his chariot made ready and went to Goshen to meet his father Israel. As soon as Joseph appeared before him, he threw his arms around his father[fn] and wept for a long time.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:1 - Joseph threw himself on his father and wept over him and kissed him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 50:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:3 - taking a full forty days, for that was the time required for embalming. And the Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:17 - ‘This is what you are to say to Joseph: I ask you to forgive your brothers the sins and the wrongs they committed in treating you so badly.’ Now please forgive the sins of the servants of the God of your father.” When their message came to him, Joseph wept.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:6 - She opened it and saw the baby. He was crying, and she felt sorry for him. “This is one of the Hebrew babies,” she said.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 10:6 - Then Moses said to Aaron and his sons Eleazar and Ithamar, “Do not let your hair become unkempt[fn] and do not tear your clothes, or you will die and the LORD will be angry with the whole community. But your relatives, all the Israelites, may mourn for those the LORD has destroyed by fire.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:4 - The rabble with them began to crave other food, and again the Israelites started wailing and said, “If only we had meat to eat!

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 11:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:10 - Moses heard the people of every family wailing at the entrance to their tents. The LORD became exceedingly angry, and Moses was troubled.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 11:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:13 - Where can I get meat for all these people? They keep wailing to me, ‘Give us meat to eat!’

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 11:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:18 - “Tell the people: ‘Consecrate yourselves in preparation for tomorrow, when you will eat meat. The LORD heard you when you wailed, “If only we had meat to eat! We were better off in Egypt!” Now the LORD will give you meat, and you will eat it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 11:20

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:20 - but for a whole month—until it comes out of your nostrils and you loathe it—because you have rejected the LORD, who is among you, and have wailed before him, saying, “Why did we ever leave Egypt?” ’ ”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:1 - That night all the members of the community raised their voices and wept aloud.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:29 - and when the whole community learned that Aaron had died, all the Israelites mourned for him thirty days.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 25:6 - Then an Israelite man brought into the camp a Midianite woman right before the eyes of Moses and the whole assembly of Israel while they were weeping at the entrance to the tent of meeting.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:45 - You came back and wept before the LORD, but he paid no attention to your weeping and turned a deaf ear to you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 21:13

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:13 - and put aside the clothes she was wearing when captured. After she has lived in your house and mourned her father and mother for a full month, then you may go to her and be her husband and she shall be your wife.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 34:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 34:8 - The Israelites grieved for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days, until the time of weeping and mourning was over.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 2:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:4 - When the angel of the LORD had spoken these things to all the Israelites, the people wept aloud,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:37 - But grant me this one request,” she said. “Give me two months to roam the hills and weep with my friends, because I will never marry.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:38

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:38 - “You may go,” he said. And he let her go for two months. She and her friends went into the hills and wept because she would never marry.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:16 - Then Samson’s wife threw herself on him, sobbing, “You hate me! You don’t really love me. You’ve given my people a riddle, but you haven’t told me the answer.” “I haven’t even explained it to my father or mother,” he replied, “so why should I explain it to you?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:17 - She cried the whole seven days of the feast. So on the seventh day he finally told her, because she continued to press him. She in turn explained the riddle to her people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:23 - The Israelites went up and wept before the LORD until evening, and they inquired of the LORD. They said, “Shall we go up again to fight against the Benjamites, our fellow Israelites?” The LORD answered, “Go up against them.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:26 - Then all the Israelites, the whole army, went up to Bethel, and there they sat weeping before the LORD. They fasted that day until evening and presented burnt offerings and fellowship offerings to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:2 - The people went to Bethel,[fn] where they sat before God until evening, raising their voices and weeping bitterly.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:9 - May the LORD grant that each of you will find rest in the home of another husband.” Then she kissed them goodbye and they wept aloud

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:14 - At this they wept aloud again. Then Orpah kissed her mother-in-law goodbye, but Ruth clung to her.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:7 - This went on year after year. Whenever Hannah went up to the house of the LORD, her rival provoked her till she wept and would not eat.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:8 - Her husband Elkanah would say to her, “Hannah, why are you weeping? Why don’t you eat? Why are you downhearted? Don’t I mean more to you than ten sons?”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:10 - In her deep anguish Hannah prayed to the LORD, weeping bitterly.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 11:4 - When the messengers came to Gibeah of Saul and reported these terms to the people, they all wept aloud.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 11:5 - Just then Saul was returning from the fields, behind his oxen, and he asked, “What is wrong with everyone? Why are they weeping?” Then they repeated to him what the men of Jabesh had said.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:41 - After the boy had gone, David got up from the south side of the stone and bowed down before Jonathan three times, with his face to the ground. Then they kissed each other and wept together—but David wept the most.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:16 - When David finished saying this, Saul asked, “Is that your voice, David my son?” And he wept aloud.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:4 - So David and his men wept aloud until they had no strength left to weep.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:12 - They mourned and wept and fasted till evening for Saul and his son Jonathan, and for the army of the LORD and for the nation of Israel, because they had fallen by the sword.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:24 - “Daughters of Israel, weep for Saul, who clothed you in scarlet and finery, who adorned your garments with ornaments of gold.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:16 - Her husband, however, went with her, weeping behind her all the way to Bahurim. Then Abner said to him, “Go back home!” So he went back.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:32 - They buried Abner in Hebron, and the king wept aloud at Abner’s tomb. All the people wept also.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:34 - Your hands were not bound, your feet were not fettered. You fell as one falls before the wicked.” And all the people wept over him again.

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