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Strong's #1058: bakah (pronounced baw-kaw')

a primitive root; to weep; generally to bemoan:--X at all, bewail, complain, make lamentation, X more, mourn, X sore, X with tears, weep.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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bâkâh

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

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root



Usage:

This word is used 114 times:

Genesis 21:16: "And she sat over against him, and lifted up her voice, and wept."
Genesis 23:2: "came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep"
Genesis 27:38: "And Esau lifted up his voice, and wept."
Genesis 29:11: "and lifted up his voice, and wept."
Genesis 33:4: "on his neck, and kissed him: and they wept."
Genesis 37:35: "my son mourning. Thus his father wept"
Genesis 42:24: "And he turned himself about from them, and wept; and returned to them again, and communed with"
Genesis 43:30: "upon his brother: and he sought where to weep; and he entered into his chamber, and wept there."
Genesis 43:30: "where to weep; and he entered into his chamber, and wept there."
Genesis 45:14: "his brother Benjamin's neck, and wept; and Benjamin wept upon his neck."
Genesis 45:14: "neck, and wept; and Benjamin wept upon his neck."
Genesis 45:15: "Moreover he kissed all his brethren, and wept upon them: and after that his brethren"
Genesis 46:29: "him; and he fell on his neck, and wept on his neck"
Genesis 50:1: "upon his father's face, and wept upon him, and kissed"
Genesis 50:3: "the days of those which are embalmed: and the Egyptians mourned for him threescore and ten days."
Genesis 50:17: "of the God of thy father. And Joseph wept when they spoke unto"
Exodus 2:6: "the child: and, behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This"
Leviticus 10:6: "the whole house of Israel, bewail the burning which the LORD"
Numbers 11:4: "them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who"
Numbers 11:10: "heard the people weep throughout their families, every man in the door of his tent:"
Numbers 11:13: "unto all this people? for they weep unto me, saying, Give"
Numbers 11:18: "and ye shall eat flesh: for ye have wept in the ears of the LORD, saying, Who"
Numbers 11:20: "ye have despised the LORD which is among you, and have wept him, saying,"
Numbers 14:1: "their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night."
Numbers 20:29: "that Aaron was dead, they mourned for Aaron thirty days,"
Numbers 25:6: "the congregation of the children who were weeping before the door of the tabernacle of the congregation."
Deuteronomy 1:45: "And ye returned and wept before the LORD; but the LORD would not hearken to your voice,"
Deuteronomy 21:13: "from off her, and shall remain in thine house, and bewail her father and her mother"
Deuteronomy 34:8: "And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty"
Judges 2:4: "lifted up their voice, and wept."
Judges 11:37: "that I may go up and down upon the mountains, and bewail my virginity, I"
Judges 11:38: "months: and she went with her companions, and bewailed her virginity upon"
Judges 14:16: "And Samson's wife wept before him, and said, Thou dost but hate me, and lovest"
Judges 14:17: " And she wept before him the seven days, while their feast lasted: and it came to pass"
Judges 20:23: "(And the children of Israel went up and wept before the LORD until even,"
Judges 20:26: "went up, and came unto the house of God, and wept, and sat there before the LORD,"
Judges 21:2: "God, and lifted up their voices, and wept sore;"
Ruth 1:9: "Then she kissed them; and they lifted up their voice, and wept."
Ruth 1:14: "And they lifted up their voice, and wept again: and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law; but Ruth"
1 Samuel 1:7: "to the house of the LORD, so she provoked her; therefore she wept, and did not eat."
1 Samuel 1:8: "her husband to her, Hannah, why weepest thou? and why eatest thou not? and why"
1 Samuel 1:10: "and prayed unto the LORD, and wept sore."
1 Samuel 1:10: "and prayed unto the LORD, and wept sore. and wept sore."
1 Samuel 11:4: "lifted up their voices, and wept."
1 Samuel 11:5: "What aileth the people that they weep? And they told him the tidings"
1 Samuel 20:41: "and they kissed one another, and wept one with another,"
1 Samuel 24:16: "And Saul his voice, and wept."
1 Samuel 30:4: "him lifted up their voice and wept, until they had no more power"
1 Samuel 30:4: "until they had no more power to weep."
2 Samuel 1:12: "And they mourned, and wept, and fasted until even, for Saul, and for"









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