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:
2 Samuel 1:24: "Ye daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you in scarlet, with"
2 Samuel 3:16: "went with her along weeping behind her to Bahurim. Then said"
2 Samuel 3:32: "lifted up his voice, and wept at the grave of Abner; and all"
2 Samuel 3:32: "of Abner; and all the people wept."
2 Samuel 3:34: "so fellest thou. And all the people wept over"
2 Samuel 12:21: "that thou hast done? thou didst fast and weep for the child, while it was alive; but when"
2 Samuel 12:22: "was yet alive, I fasted and wept: for I said, Who can tell"
2 Samuel 13:36: "came, and lifted up their voice and wept: and the king also and all his servants"
2 Samuel 13:36: "also and all his servants wept very"
2 Samuel 15:23: "And all the country wept with a loud voice, and all the people passed over:"
2 Samuel 15:30: "went up by the ascent of mount Olivet, and wept as he went up, and had his head covered, and he"
2 Samuel 15:30: "his head, and they went up, weeping as they went up."
2 Samuel 18:33: "to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son"
2 Samuel 19:1: "Joab, Behold, the king weepeth and mourneth for Absalom."
2 Kings 8:11: "he was ashamed: and the man of God wept."
2 Kings 8:12: "And Hazael said, Why weepeth my lord? And he answered, Because I know"
2 Kings 13:14: "of Israel came down unto him, and wept over his face, and said, O my father,"
2 Kings 20:3: "that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept"
2 Kings 22:19: "and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me; I also"
2 Chronicles 34:27: "before thy clothes, and weep before me; I have even heard"
Ezra 3:12: "the first house, when the foundation of this house was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud"
Ezra 10:1: "Now when Ezra had prayed, and when he had confessed, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God,"
Ezra 10:1: "and women for the people wept very sore."
Nehemiah 1:4: "these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned certain days, and fasted,"
Nehemiah 8:9: "mourn not, nor weep. For all the people wept,"
Nehemiah 8:9: "For all the people wept, when they heard the words of the law."
Esther 8:3: "at his feet, and besought him with tears to put away the mischief of Haman"
Job 2:12: "and knew him not, they lifted up their voice, and wept; and they rent every one his mantle,"
Job 27:15: "in death: and his widows shall not weep."
Job 30:25: "Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?"
Job 30:31: "turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep."
Job 31:38: "against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain;"
Psalms 69:10: " When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach."
Psalms 78:64: "by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation."
Psalms 126:6: "He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again"
Psalms 137:1: "there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion."
Ecclesiastes 3:4: "A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;"
Isaiah 16:9: "Therefore I will bewail with the weeping of Jazer the vine of Sibmah: I will water"
Isaiah 30:19: "shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem: thou shalt weep no more: he will be very gracious"
Isaiah 30:19: "shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem: thou shalt weep no more: thou shalt weep no more: he will be very gracious"
Isaiah 33:7: "without: the ambassadors of peace shall weep bitterly."
Isaiah 38:3: "that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore."
Jeremiah 9:1: "and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain"
Jeremiah 13:17: "ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places for your pride;"
Jeremiah 22:10: " Weep ye not for the dead, neither bemoan him: but weep sore for him that goeth away:"
Jeremiah 22:10: "for the dead, neither bemoan him: but weep sore for him that goeth away: for he shall return"
Jeremiah 22:10: "for the dead, neither bemoan him: but weep sore him: but weep sore for him that goeth away: for he shall return"
Jeremiah 31:15: "and bitter weeping; Rachel weeping for her children refused to be comforted"
Jeremiah 41:6: "from Mizpah to meet them, weeping all along as he went: and it came to pass, as he met"
Jeremiah 48:32: "O vine of Sibmah, I will weep for thee with the weeping of Jazer: thy plants are gone over"
