Strong's #1238: baqaq (pronounced baw-kah')

a primitive root; to pour out, i.e. to empty, figuratively, to depopulate; by analogy, to spread out (as a fruitful vine):--(make) empty (out), fail, X utterly, make void.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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bâqaq

1) to empty

1a) (Qal)

1a1) to empty, lay waste

1a2) to make void (figuratively)

1b) (Niphal) to be emptied

1c) (Polel) to empty out, devastate

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 9 times:

 

Isaiah 19:3: "And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to"
Isaiah 24:1: "Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad"
Isaiah 24:3: "The land shall be utterly emptied, for the LORD hath spoken"
Isaiah 24:3: "The land shall be utterly emptied, shall be utterly emptied, for the LORD hath spoken"
Jeremiah 19:7: " And I will make void of Judah and Jerusalem in this place; and I will cause them to fall"
Jeremiah 51:2: "unto Babylon that shall fan her, and shall empty her land: for in the day"
Hosea 10:1: "Israel is an empty he bringeth forth fruit unto himself: according to the multitude of his fruit he hath increased"
Nahum 2:2: "as the excellency of Israel: for the emptiers have emptied them out, and marred their vine branches."
Nahum 2:2: "of Israel: for the emptiers have emptied them out, and marred their vine branches."