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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
Dictionary Aids

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.
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

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

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

Page 2 / 2 (2Sa 12:21–Zec 7:3)

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:21 -

Then his servants said to him, “What is this thing that you have done? [fn]While the child was alive, you fasted and wept H1058; but when the child died, you arose and ate food.”

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:22 - Then he said, “While the child was still alive, I fasted and wept H1058; for I said, ‘Who knows, Yahweh may be gracious to me, that the child may live.’
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:36 - As soon as he had finished speaking, behold, the king’s sons came and lifted their voices and wept H1058; and also the king and all his servants wept H1058 [fn]very bitterly.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:23 - While all the country was weeping H1058 with a loud voice, all the people passed over. The king also passed over the brook Kidron, and all the people passed over toward the way of the wilderness.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:30 -

But David went up the ascent of the Mount of Olives, and wept H1058 as he went, and his head was covered and he was walking barefoot. And all the people who were with him each covered his head and went up weeping H1058 as they went.

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:33 -

[fn]Then the king trembled and went up to the chamber over the gate and wept H1058. And thus he said as he walked, “O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! Would I had died instead of you, O Absalom, my son, my son!”

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:1 -

Then it was told to Joab, “Behold, the king is weeping H1058 and mourns for Absalom.”

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:11 - And he [fn]fixed his gaze steadily on him until he was ashamed, and the man of God wept H1058.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:12 - Then Hazael said, “Why does my lord weep H1058?” Then he said, “Because I know the evil that you will do to the sons of Israel: their fortifications you will set on fire, and their young men you will kill with the sword, and their infants you will dash in pieces, and their pregnant women you will rip up.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 13:14 -

Now Elisha [fn]became sick with the illness of which he was to die. So Joash the king of Israel came down to him and wept H1058 over [fn]him and said, “My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and its horsemen!”

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:3 - “Remember now, O Yahweh, I beseech You, how I have walked before You in truth and with a whole heart and have done what is good in Your sight.” And Hezekiah wept H1058 [fn]greatly.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:19 - because your heart was soft and you humbled yourself before Yahweh when you heard what I spoke against this place and against its inhabitants that they should become an object of horror, and a curse, and you have torn your clothes and wept H1058 before Me, I truly have heard you,” declares Yahweh.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:27 - because your heart was soft and you humbled yourself before God when you heard His words against this place and against its inhabitants, and because you humbled yourself before Me, tore your clothes and wept H1058 before Me, I truly have heard you,” declares Yahweh.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 3:12 - Yet many of the priests and Levites and heads of fathers’ households, the old men who had seen the first house of Yahweh, were weeping H1058 with a loud voice when the foundation of this house was laid before their eyes, while many in loud shouts with gladness were raising their voice,
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:1 -

Now while Ezra was praying and making confession, weeping H1058 and prostrating himself before the house of God, a very large assembly, men, women, and children, gathered to him from Israel; for the people wept H1058 bitterly.

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 1:4 -

Now it happened that when I heard these words, I sat down and wept H1058 and mourned for days; and I was fasting and praying before the God of heaven.

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 8:9 -

Then Nehemiah, who was the [fn]governor, and Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites, who provided the people with understanding, said to all the people, “This day is holy to Yahweh your God; do not mourn or weep H1058.” For all the people were weeping H1058 when they heard the words of the law.

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 8:3 -

Then Esther spoke again to the king, fell at his feet, wept H1058, and implored him to [fn]repeal the evil scheme of Haman the Agagite and his scheme which he had devised against the Jews.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 2:12 - Then they lifted up their eyes at a distance and did not recognize him, and they lifted up their voices and wept H1058. And each of them tore his robe, and they threw dust over their heads toward the sky.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:15 -

“His survivors will be buried because of the plague,

And [fn]their widows will not be able to weep H1058.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:25 -

“Have I not wept H1058 for the [fn]one whose life is hard?

Was not my soul grieved for the needy?

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:31 -

“Therefore my harp [fn]is turned to mourning,

And my flute to the sound of those who weep H1058.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:38 -

“If my land cries out against me,

And its furrows weep H1058 together,

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:10 -

When I wept H1058 in my soul with fasting,

It became my reproach.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:64 -

[fn]His priests fell by the sword,

And [fn]His widows could not weep H1058.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 126:6 -

He who goes to and fro weeping H1058, carrying his bag of seed,

Shall indeed come again with a shout of joy, carrying his sheaves with him.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 137:1 -

By the rivers of Babylon,

There we sat and also wept H1058,

When we remembered Zion.

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:4 -

A time to weep H1058 and a time to laugh;

A time to mourn and a time to dance.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 16:9 -

Therefore I will weep H1058 bitterly for Jazer, for the vine of Sibmah;

I will drench you with my tears, O Heshbon and Elealeh;

For the shouting over your summer fruits and your harvest has fallen away.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:19 -

[fn]O people in Zion, inhabitant in Jerusalem, you will weep H1058 no longer H1058. He will surely be gracious to you at the sound of your cry; when He hears it, He will answer you.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:7 -

Behold, their brave men cry in [fn]the streets;

The messengers of peace weep H1058 bitterly.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:3 - and said, “Remember now, O Yahweh, I beseech You, how I have walked before You in truth and with a whole heart and have done what is good in Your sight.” And Hezekiah wept H1058 [fn]greatly.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:1 -

[fn]Oh that my head were waters

And my eyes a fountain of tears,

That I might weep H1058 day and night

For the slain of the daughter of my people!

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:17 -

But if you will not listen to it,

My soul will cry H1058 in secret for such pride;

And my eyes will bitterly weep

And flow down with tears

Because the flock of Yahweh has been taken captive.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:10 -

Do not weep H1058 for the dead or console him,

But weep H1058 continually H1058 for the one who goes away,

For he will never return

Or see the land of his birth.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:15 -

Thus says Yahweh,

“A voice is heard in Ramah,

Wailing and bitter weeping.

Rachel is weeping for her children;

She refuses to be comforted for her children

Because they are no more.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 41:6 - Then Ishmael the son of Nethaniah went out from Mizpah to meet them, weeping H1058 as he went; and it happened that as he encountered them, he said to them, “Come to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam!”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:32 -

“More than the weeping for Jazer

I will weep H1058 for you, O vine of Sibmah!

Your branches stretched across the sea,

They reached to the sea of Jazer;

Upon your summer fruits and your grape harvest

The destroyer has fallen.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:4 -

“In those days and at that time,” declares Yahweh, “the sons of Israel will come, both they and the sons of Judah as well; they will go along weeping H1058 as they go, and it will be Yahweh their God they will seek.

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:2 -

Beth

She weeps H1058 bitterly H1058 in the night,

And her tears are on her cheeks;

She has none to comfort her

Among all her lovers.

All her friends have dealt treacherously with her;

They have become her enemies.

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:16 -

Ayin

“For these things I am weeping H1058;

[fn]My eyes run down with water;

Because far from me is a comforter,

One who restores my soul.

My children are desolate

Because the enemy has prevailed.”

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:14 -

Then He brought me to the entrance of the gate of the house of Yahweh which was toward the north; and behold, women were sitting there weeping H1058 for Tammuz.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:16 - “Son of man, behold, I am about to take from you the desire of your eyes with a blow; but you shall not mourn, and you shall not weep H1058, and your tears shall not come.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:23 - ‘And your headdresses will be on your heads and your shoes on your feet. You will not mourn, and you will not weep H1058, but you will rot away in your iniquities, and you will groan [fn]to one another.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 27:31 -

“Also they will make themselves bald for you

And gird themselves with sackcloth;

And they will weep H1058 for you in bitterness of soul

With bitter mourning.

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 12:4 -

Indeed, he [fn]wrestled with the angel and prevailed;

He wept H1058 and sought His favor.

He found Him at Bethel,

And there He spoke with us,

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:5 -

Awake, drunkards, and weep H1058;

And wail, all you wine drinkers,

On account of the sweet wine

That is cut off from your mouth.

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:17 -

Let the priests, the ministers of Yahweh,

Weep H1058 between the porch and the altar,

And let them say, “Pity Your people, O Yahweh,

And do not make Your inheritance a reproach,

A byword among the nations.

Why should they among the peoples say,

‘Where is their God?’”

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 1:10 -

Tell it not in Gath,

Weep H1058 not at all H1058.

At [fn]Beth-le-aphrah roll yourself in the dust.

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 7:3 - speaking to the priests, who belong to the house of Yahweh of hosts, and to the prophets, saying, “Shall I weep H1058 in the fifth month [fn]and abstain, as I have done these many years?”

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