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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 that [fn]sprouts anew.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 90:6 -

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

Toward evening it wilts and withers away.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 90:14 -

Satisfy us in the morning H1242 with Your graciousness,

That we may sing for joy and rejoice all our days.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 92:2 -

To declare Your goodness in the morning H1242

And Your faithfulness by [fn]night,

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 101:8 -

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

So as to eliminate from the city of the LORD all those who do injustice.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 130:6 -

My soul waits in hope for the Lord

More than the watchmen for the morning H1242;

Yes, more than the watchmen for the morning H1242.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 143:8 -

Let me hear Your faithfulness in the morning H1242,

For I trust in You;

Teach me the way in which I should walk;

For to You I lift up my soul.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:18 -

“Come, let’s drink our fill of love until morning H1242;

Let’s delight ourselves with caresses.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:14 -

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

It will be considered a curse to him.

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

Sow your seed in the morning H1242 and do not [fn]be idle in the evening, for you do not know whether [fn]one or the other 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 so that they may pursue intoxicating drink,

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

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:11 -

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

And in the morning H1242 you bring your seed to blossom;

But the harvest will flee

On a day of illness and incurable pain.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:14 -

At evening time, behold, there is terror!

Before morning H1242 they are gone.

This will be the [fn]fate of those who plunder us

And the lot of those who pillage 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 [fn]seize 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 [fn]what it means.”

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:2 -

LORD, be gracious to us; we have waited for 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 the LORD went out and struck 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians; and when the rest got up early in the morning H1242, behold, all of [fn]the 185,000 were [fn]dead.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:13 -

“I composed my soul until morning H1242.

Like a lion—so He breaks all my bones,

From day until night You make an end of me.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 50:4 -

The Lord [fn]GOD has given Me the tongue of disciples,

So 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 may that man be like the cities

Which the LORD overthrew without [fn]relenting,

And may he hear an outcry in the morning H1242

And [fn]an alarm for war at noon;

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 21:12 - house of David, this is what the LORD says:

“Administer justice [fn]every morning H1242;

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

So that My wrath will not spread like fire

And burn, with no one 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 the LORD 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 the LORD had been upon me in the evening, before the survivors 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 [fn]speechless.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 46:13 -

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

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 46:14 - “You shall also provide a grain offering with it morning H1242 by morning H1242, a sixth of an ephah and a third of a hin of oil to moisten the fine flour, a grain offering to the LORD continually by [fn]a permanent ordinance.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 46:15 - “So they shall provide the lamb, the grain offering, and the oil, morning H1242 by morning H1242, as a continual burnt offering.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 8:14 - And he said to me, “For 2,300 evenings and mornings H1242; then the sanctuary will be [fn]properly restored.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 8:26 -

“And the vision of the evenings and mornings H1242

Which has been told is true;

But as for you, keep the vision secret,

Because it pertains to many days in the future.

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 6:4 -

What shall I do with you, Ephraim?

What shall I do with you, Judah?

For your loyalty 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 approach their [fn]plotting;

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

In the morning H1242 it burns like 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 chimney.

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 4:4 -

“Enter Bethel and do wrong;

In Gilgal multiply wrongdoing!

Bring your sacrifices every morning H1242,

Your tithes every three days.

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:8 -

He who made the Pleiades and Orion,

And changes deep darkness 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,

The LORD is His name.

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 2:1 -

Woe to those who devise wrongdoing,

Who practice evil on their beds!

[fn]When morning H1242 comes, they do it,

Because it is in the power of their hands.

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 3:3 -

Her leaders within her are roaring lions,

Her judges are wolves at evening;

They have no bones to gnaw in the morning H1242.

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 3:5 -

The LORD is righteous within her;

He will do no injustice.

Every H1242 morning H1242 He brings His justice to light;

He [fn]does not fail.

But the [fn]criminal knows no shame.


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