Bakhah בָּכָה

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Bakhah
בָּכָה
Transliterationbakhah
Strong's numberH1058
LanguageHebrew
Part of speechverb
Glossto weep
Occurrences114 in 100 verses
Most frequent inGenesis (14)

Bakhah (Hebrew בָּכָה, Strong's H1058) is a Hebrew verb meaning “to weep”. It occurs 114 times in 100 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

1) to weep, bewail, cry, shed tears
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to weep (in grief, humiliation, or joy)
1a2) to weep bitterly (with cognate acc.)
1a3) to weep upon (embrace and weep)
1a4) to bewail
1b) (Piel) participle
1b1) lamenting
1b2) bewailing

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

KJVwept (55), weep (27), weeping (7), bewail (4), weepeth (3), mourned (2), bewailed (1), again (1), weepest (1), wept sore (1), over (1), tears (1), and 6 other renderings
BSBwept (37), weeping (16), weep (13), mourned (4), he wept (2), were weeping (2), they wept (2), they both wept (1), was crying (1), may mourn (1), they keep crying out (1), you have cried out (1), and 29 other renderings

Verses

Every verse with Bakhah, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Genesis

Exodus

Leviticus

Numbers

Deuteronomy

Judges

Ruth

1 Samuel

2 Samuel

2 Kings

2 Chronicles

Ezra

Nehemiah

Esther

Job

Psalms

Ecclesiastes

Isaiah

Jeremiah

Lamentations

Ezekiel

Hosea

Joel

Micah

Zechariah

Notes

  1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
  2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).
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