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Lexicon :: Strong's H1242 - bōqer

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בֹּקֶר
Transliteration
bōqer
Pronunciation
bo'-ker
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 274c

Strong’s Definitions

בֹּקֶר bôqer, bo'-ker; from H1239; properly, dawn (as the break of day); generally, morning:—(+) day, early, morning, morrow.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 205x

The KJV translates Strong's H1242 in the following manner: morning (191x), morrow (7x), day (3x), days (with H6153) (1x), early (3x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 205x
The KJV translates Strong's H1242 in the following manner: morning (191x), morrow (7x), day (3x), days (with H6153) (1x), early (3x).
  1. morning, break of day

    1. morning

      1. of end of night

      2. of coming of daylight

      3. of coming of sunrise

      4. of beginning of day

      5. of bright joy after night of distress (fig.)

    2. morrow, next day, next morning

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
בֹּקֶר bôqer, bo'-ker; from H1239; properly, dawn (as the break of day); generally, morning:—(+) day, early, morning, morrow.
STRONGS H1242: Abbreviations
בֹּ֫קֶר 214 noun masculineExodus 10:13 morning (Late Hebrew id.; from split, penetrate, as the dawn the darkness, light through cloud-rifts, etc.) — ב׳ Genesis 1:5 + (always absolute); plural בְּקָרִים Job 7:18 + 4 times; —
1. morning (of point of time, time at which, never during which, English morning = forenoon): —
a. of end of night (opposed to לַיְלָה) Exodus 10:13 (J) Leviticus 6:2 (P) Judges 19:25; Ruth 3:13 (twice in verse); Isaiah 21:12 compare 1 Samuel 19:11 (|| מחר, opposed to לילה); opposed to לֵילוֺת Psalm 92:3; also (opposed to לוּן) Exodus 23:18; Exodus 34:25 (both J E) Leviticus 19:13 (H) Deuteronomy 16:4; opposed to צלמות Amos 5:8; compare further Genesis 40:6; Genesis 41:8 (both E) Exodus 12:22; Exodus 34:2 (twice in verse) (both J E) 1 Samuel 3:15 +,
b. implying the coming of dawn, and even daylight Genesis 29:25 (E) Genesis 44:3 (J) 1 Kings 3:21 (but Klo here for 2nd בַּבֹּקֶר, reads לְבַקֵּר by looking at it see H1239 בָּקַר) Job 24:17; Job 38:12 (|| שַׁחַר); לִפְנוֺת הַבּ׳ Exodus 14:27 (JE) at the turn of the morning, so Judges 19:26 (|| בַּעֲלוֺת הַשָּׁ֑חַר Judges 19:25; followed by עַד־הָאוֺר, as something later, Judges 19:26); see Ruth 3:14 (|| בטרו֯ם יכיר אישׁ את רעהו before men could recognise each other); compare כּוֺכְבֵי בֹקֶר Job 38:7 stars of morning; but also with אוֺר verb Genesis 44:3 (J) הבקר אור; with אור noun, באור הבקר Micah 2:1; & especially עד אור הבקר Judges 16:2 (opposed to לילה) so 1 Samuel 14:36; also 1 Samuel 25:22, 34, 36; 2 Samuel 17:22; 2 Kings 7:9; compare 1 Samuel 29:10 (|| וְאוֺר לָכֶם).
c. of coming of sunrise Judges 9:33; 2 Samuel 23:4 (twice in verse); 2 Kings 3:22 compare וערב מוֺצָּאֵי ב׳ Psalm 65:9 i.e. places of sunrise and sunset (|| קְצוֺת i.e. ends of earth).
d. of beginning of day, וְעַד־עַתָּה מֵאָז הַבּ׳ Ruth 2:7 (compare Ruth 2:14) see 2 Samuel 24:15 (but strike out We Dr); time of prayer, & praise Psalm 5:4 (twice in verse) (see Hu) Psalm 59:17; Psalm 88:14; Psalm 92:3; || צהרים noon 1 Kings 18:26; Jeremiah 20:16; of three hours of prayer, ערב ובקר וצהרים Psalm 55:18 (compare Daniel 6:10; Daniel 6:13); compare also with עֶרֶב below.
e. opposed to עֶרֶב Genesis 49:27 (poem in J) Exodus 16:7, 8, 12, 13; Leviticus 6:13; Numbers 9:21 (all P) Deuteronomy 28:67 (twice in verse); 2 Samuel 11:14; 1 Kings 17:6; Isaiah 17:14; Zephaniah 3:3; Ezekiel 24:18 (twice in verse); Ezekiel 33:22; Daniel 8:26; Psalm 30:6; Psalm 90:5; Psalm 90:6; Ecclesiastes 11:6; 1 Chronicles 16:40; 2 Chronicles 2:3; 2 Chronicles 13:11; 31:3; Ezra 3:3; Esther 2:14; opposed to בֵּין הערבים Exodus 29:39, 41; Numbers 28:4, 8 (all P); especially מן־הבקר עד־הערב = all day Exodus 18:13 & (without article) Exodus 18:14 (both E); מבקר לָעֶרֶב Job 4:20 = between morning and evening; also מֵעֶרֶב עַד־בֹּקֶר = all night, Exodus 27:21 (P) Leviticus 24:3 (H) Numbers 9:21 & בָּעֶרֶב עַד־בּ׳ Numbers 9:15 (both P); note also the formula וַיְהִי ערב ויהי בקר and evening came and then morning Genesis 1:5, 8, 13, 19, 23, 31 (all P), i.e. the day ended with evening, and the night with morning; peculiar is Daniel 8:14 of omission of daily sacrifice עַד עֶרֶב בֹּקֶר אַלְמַּיִם וּשְׁלשׁ מֵאוֺת, until 2300 evening-mornings, probably = 2300 half-days (Ew Hi Meinh Bev DrIntr. 464, compare Daniel 8:26 & 3 1/2 times (years) Daniel 7:25; Daniel 12:11; Daniel 12:17).
f. often (above & elsewhere) with preposition (+ article except Job 7:18); in the morning, בַּבֹּקֶר Genesis 19:27 110 times, compare also בִּהְיֹת הַבּ׳ Exodus 19:16; in (or at) the morning, לַבּ׳ Amos 4:4 + 7 times; for (against or by) the morning, לַבּ׳ Exodus 34:2 compare Psalm 130:6 (compare Checritical note); nearly = until (עַד־) Exodus 34:25; Deuteronomy 16:4; Zephaniah 3:3; further בַּבּ׳ בַּבּ׳ morning by morning, every morning Exodus 16:21; Exodus 30:7; Exodus 36:3; Leviticus 6:5 (all P) 2 Samuel 13:4; 1 Chronicles 23:30; 2 Chronicles 13:11; Isaiah 28:19; Isaiah 50:4; Ezekiel 46:13, 14, 15; Zephaniah 3:5 also לַבּ׳ לַבּ׳, same sense, 1 Chronicles 9:27; plural לַבְּקָרִים every morning afresh Psalm 73:14; Isaiah 33:2 compare Lamentations 3:23; almost = continually Psalm 101:8 (compare Jeremiah 21:12); see לִבְקָרִים Job 7:18 (|| לִרְגָעִים every moment); also without preposition or article in the morning Hosea 7:6 compare Psalm 5:4 (twice in verse); Psalm 55:18, d. above, & below 2.
g. figurative of bright joy after night of distress (poetry) Job 11:17; compare Psalm 30:6; Psalm 46:6 (לִפְנוֺת בּ׳) Psalm 49:15; Psalm 59:17; Psalm 90:14; Psalm 143:8.
h. in phrases, הִשְׁכִּים בַּבּ׳ (וַיַּשְׁכֵּם etc.) he rose early in the morning Genesis 19:27; Genesis 20:8; Genesis 21:14; Genesis 22:3; Genesis 26:31; Genesis 28:18; Genesis 32:1 Genesis 31:55; Exodus 8:16; Exodus 9:13; Exodus 24:4; Exodus 34:4; Numbers 14:40; Joshua 3:1; Joshua 6:12; Joshua 7:16; Joshua 8:10 (all J E) Judges 6:28; Judges 19:5, 8; 1 Samuel 1:19; 1 Samuel 5:4; compare 1 Samuel 15:12; 1 Samuel 17:20; 1 Samuel 29:10 (twice in verse) compare 1 Samuel 29:11, 2 Kings 3:22; 2 Kings 19:35 = Isaiah 37:36; 2 Chronicles 20:20; Job 1:5; Proverbs 27:14; Isaiah 5:11; (ויקומו etc.) ויקם בַּבּ׳ Genesis 24:54; Numbers 22:13, 21 (all J E) Judges 19:27; Judges 20:19; 2 Samuel 24:11; 1 Kings 3:21; אַשְׁמֹרֶת הַבּ׳ morning watch Exodus 14:24; 1 Samuel 11:11.
2. morrow, next day (compare German Morgen, morgen) without article Exodus 16:19, 20; Leviticus 7:15; Leviticus 22:30 (opposed to הַיּוֺם הַהוּא) Numbers 16:5 (|| מָחָר Numbers 16:7; Numbers 16:16) compare Exodus 12:10 (twice in verse); Numbers 9:12; with article Exodus 16:23, 24; Exodus 29:34; לַבּ׳ Exodus 34:25; Numbers 22:41; Zephaniah 3:3; בַּבּ׳ 1 Samuel 9:19 (opposed to הַיּוֺם to-day) compare 1 Samuel 20:35; to-morrow morning הַבּ׳ Judges 6:31 (Stu); בַּבּ׳ Exodus 7:15; Joshua 7:14; Esther 5:14; definitely מִמָּֽחֳרָת בַּבּ׳ 1 Samuel 5:4; מֵהַבּ׳ 2 Samuel 2:27; adverb. use in this sense (without preposition or article) Exodus 16:7; Numbers 16:5.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

1:5; 1:5; 1:8; 1:13; 1:19; 1:23; 1:31; 19:1; 19:27; 19:27; 20:8; 21:14; 22:3; 24:54; 26:31; 28:18; 29:25; 32:1; 40:6; 41:8; 44:3; 44:3; 49:27

Exodus

7:15; 8:16; 9:13; 10:13; 10:13; 12:10; 12:22; 14:24; 14:27; 16:7; 16:7; 16:8; 16:12; 16:13; 16:19; 16:20; 16:21; 16:23; 16:24; 18:13; 18:14; 19:16; 23:18; 24:4; 27:21; 29:34; 29:39; 29:41; 30:7; 34:2; 34:2; 34:4; 34:25; 34:25; 34:25; 36:3

Leviticus

6:2; 6:5; 6:13; 7:15; 19:13; 22:30; 24:3

Numbers

9:12; 9:15; 9:21; 9:21; 14:40; 16:5; 16:5; 16:7; 16:16; 22:13; 22:21; 22:41; 28:4; 28:8

Deuteronomy

16:4; 16:4; 28:67

Joshua

3:1; 6:12; 7:14; 7:16; 8:10

Judges

6:28; 6:31; 9:33; 16:2; 19:5; 19:8; 19:25; 19:25; 19:26; 19:26; 19:27; 20:19

Ruth

2:7; 2:14; 3:13; 3:14

1 Samuel

1:19; 3:15; 5:4; 5:4; 9:19; 11:11; 14:36; 15:12; 17:20; 19:11; 20:35; 25:22; 25:34; 25:36; 29:10; 29:10; 29:11

2 Samuel

2:27; 11:14; 13:4; 17:22; 23:4; 24:11; 24:15

1 Kings

3:21; 3:21; 17:6; 18:26

2 Kings

3:22; 3:22; 7:9; 19:35

1 Chronicles

9:27; 16:40; 23:30

2 Chronicles

2:3; 13:11; 13:11; 20:20; 31:3

Ezra

3:3

Esther

2:14; 5:14

Job

1:5; 4:20; 7:18; 7:18; 7:18; 11:17; 24:17; 38:7; 38:12

Psalms

5:4; 5:4; 30:6; 30:6; 46:6; 49:15; 55:18; 55:18; 59:17; 59:17; 65:9; 73:14; 88:14; 90:5; 90:6; 90:14; 92:3; 92:3; 101:8; 130:6; 143:8

Proverbs

27:14

Ecclesiastes

11:6

Isaiah

5:11; 17:14; 21:12; 28:19; 33:2; 37:36; 50:4

Jeremiah

20:16; 21:12

Lamentations

3:23

Ezekiel

24:18; 33:22; 46:13; 46:14; 46:15

Daniel

6:10; 6:13; 7:25; 8:14; 8:26; 8:26; 12:11

Hosea

7:6

Amos

4:4; 5:8

Micah

2:1

Zephaniah

3:3; 3:3; 3:3; 3:5

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H1242 matches the Hebrew בֹּקֶר (bōqer),
which occurs 214 times in 189 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 4 / 4 (Psa 90:5–Zep 3:5)

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 90:5 -

You have [fn]swept them away like a flood, they [fn]fall asleep;

In the morning H1242 they are like grass which [fn]sprouts anew.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 90:6 -

In the morning H1242 it blossoms and [fn]sprouts anew;

Toward evening it withers away and dries up.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 90:14 -

O satisfy us in the morning H1242 with Your lovingkindness,

That we may sing for joy and be glad all our days.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 92:2 -

To declare Your lovingkindness in the morning H1242

And Your faithfulness [fn]by night,

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 101:8 -

Every morning H1242 I will [fn]destroy all the wicked of the land,

To cut off from the city of Yahweh all the workers of iniquity.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 130:6 -

My soul waits for the Lord

More than the watchmen for the morning H1242,

The watchmen for the morning H1242.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 143:8 -

Cause me to hear Your lovingkindness in the morning H1242;

For I trust in You;

Cause me to know the way in which I should walk;

For to You I lift up my soul.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:18 -

“Come, then, let us drink our fill as lovers until morning H1242;

Let us delight ourselves with the pleasures of love.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:14 -

He who blesses his friend with a loud voice early in the morning H1242,

It will be counted as a curse to him.

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 10:16 - Woe to you, O land, whose king is a young man and whose princes [fn]eat in the morning H1242.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 11:6 -

Sow your seed in the morning H1242 and do not put your hands down in the evening, for you do not know whether [fn]morning or evening sowing will succeed, or whether both of them alike will be good.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:11 -

Woe to those who rise early in the morning H1242 that they may pursue strong drink,

Who stay up late in the evening that wine may inflame them!

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:11 -

In the day that you plant it you carefully fence it in,

And in the morning H1242 you cause your seed to flourish;

But the harvest will be a heap

In a day of sickliness and incurable pain.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:14 -

At evening time, behold, there is terror!

Before morning H1242 they are no more.

[fn]Such will be the portion of those who pillage us

And the lot of those who plunder us.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 21:12 -

The watchman says,

“Morning H1242 comes but also night.

If you would inquire, inquire;

Come back again.”

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:19 -

“As often as it passes through, it will take you;

For morning H1242 after morning H1242 it will pass through, anytime during the day or night,

And it will be [fn]sheer terror to understand the report.”

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:2 -

O Yahweh, be gracious to us; we have hoped in You.

Be [fn]their [fn]strength every morning H1242,

Our salvation also in the time of distress.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:36 -

Then the angel of Yahweh went out and struck 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians. And [fn]the men arose early in the morning H1242, and behold, all of them were dead bodies.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:13 -

“I soothed my soul until morning H1242.

Like a lion—so He shatters all my bones;

From day until night You make an end of me.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 50:4 -

Lord Yahweh has given Me the tongue of disciples,

That I may know how to sustain the weary one with a word.

He awakens Me morning H1242 by morning H1242;

He awakens My ear to listen as a disciple.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 20:16 -

But let that man be like the cities

Which Yahweh overthrew without [fn]relenting,

And let him hear an outcry in the morning H1242

And a [fn]shout of war at noon,

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 21:12 - O house of David, thus says Yahweh:

“Render justice [fn]every morning H1242;

And deliver the person who has been robbed from the [fn]power of his oppressor,

Lest My wrath go forth like fire

And burn with none to extinguish it,

Because of the evil of their deeds.

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:23 -

They are new every morning H1242;

Great is Your faithfulness.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:8 -

And in the morning H1242 the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:18 - So I spoke to the people in the morning H1242, and in the evening my wife died. And in the morning H1242 I did as I was commanded.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:22 - Now the hand of Yahweh had been upon me in the evening, before those who escaped came. And He opened my mouth [fn]at the time they came to me in the morning H1242; so my mouth was opened, and I was no longer mute.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 46:13 -

“And you shall provide a lamb a year old without blemish for a burnt offering to Yahweh daily; morning H1242 by morning H1242 you shall provide it.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 46:14 - “Also you shall provide a grain offering with it morning H1242 by morning H1242—a sixth of an ephah as well as a third of a hin of oil to moisten the fine flour—a grain offering to Yahweh continually by a perpetual statute.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 46:15 - “Thus they shall provide the lamb, the grain offering, and the oil, morning H1242 by morning H1242, for a continual burnt offering.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 8:14 - He said to me, “For 2,300 evenings and mornings H1242; then the holy place will be [fn]made righteous.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 8:26 -

“And what had appeared about the evenings and mornings H1242

Which has been told is true;

But as for you, conceal the vision,

For it pertains to many days in the future.”

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 6:4 -

What shall I do with you, O Ephraim?

What shall I do with you, O Judah?

For your lovingkindness is like a morning H1242 cloud

And like the dew which goes away early.

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 7:6 -

For their hearts are like an oven

As they draw near in their [fn]plotting;

Their [fn]anger [fn]smolders all night;

In the morning H1242 it burns like a flaming fire.

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 13:3 -

Therefore they will be like the morning H1242 cloud

And like dew which [fn]soon disappears,

Like chaff which is blown away from the threshing floor

And like smoke from a [fn]chimney.

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 4:4 -

“Enter Bethel and transgress;

In Gilgal multiply transgression!

Bring your sacrifices every morning H1242,

Your tithes every three days.

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:8 -

He who made the Pleiades and Orion

And overturns the shadow of death into morning H1242,

[fn]Who also darkens day into night,

Who calls for the waters of the sea

And pours them out on the surface of the earth,

Yahweh is His name.

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 2:1 -

Woe to those who devise wickedness,

Who work out evil on their beds!

When the light of the morning H1242 comes, they do it,

For it is in the power of their hands.

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 3:3 -

Her princes in her midst are roaring lions;

Her judges are wolves at evening;

They leave nothing to gnaw for the morning H1242.

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 3:5 -

Yahweh is righteous in her midst;

He will do no injustice.

Every H1242 morning H1242 He brings His justice to light;

[fn]He does not fail.

But the unjust knows no shame.


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