Strong's #1234: baqa` (pronounced baw-kah')
a primitive root; to cleave; generally, to rend, break, rip or open:--make a breach, break forth (into, out, in pieces, through, up), be ready to burst, cleave (asunder), cut out, divide, hatch, rend (asunder), rip up, tear, win.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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bâqa‛
1) to split, cleave, break open, divide, break through, rip up, break up, tear
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to cleave, cleave open
1a2) to break through, break into
1b) (Niphal)
1b1) to be cleft, be rent open, be split open
1b2) to be broken into
1c) (Piel)
1c1) to cleave, cut to pieces, rend open
1c2) to break through, break down
1d) (Pual)
1d1) to be ripped open, be torn open
1d2) to be rent
1d3) to be broken into
1e) (Hiphil)
1e1) to break into
1e2) to break through
1f) (Hophal) to be broken into
1g) (Hithpael) to burst (themselves) open, cleave asunder
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root
Usage:
This word is used 51 times:
Genesis 7:11: "were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened."
Genesis 22:3: "with him, and Isaac his son, and cleaved the wood for the burnt offering, and went"
Exodus 14:16: "thine hand over the sea, and divide it: and the children of Israel shall go"
Exodus 14:21: "the sea dry land, and the waters were divided."
Numbers 16:31: "these words, that the ground cleaved asunder that was under"
Joshua 9:4: "and wine bottles, old, and rent, and bound up;"
Joshua 9:13: "we filled, were new; and, behold, they be rent: and these our garments and our shoes are become old"
Judges 15:19: "But God cleaved a hollow place that was in the jaw, and there came water"
1 Samuel 6:14: "where there was a great stone: and they cleaved the wood of the cart, and offered"
2 Samuel 23:16: "And the three mighty men broke through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well"
1 Kings 1:40: "with great joy, so that the earth rent with the sound"
2 Kings 2:24: "she bears out of the wood, and tore forty and two children of"
2 Kings 3:26: "men that drew swords, to break through even unto of Edom: but they could"
2 Kings 8:12: "with the sword, and wilt dash their children, and rip up their women with child."
2 Kings 15:16: "to him, therefore he smote it; and all the women therein that were with child he ripped up."
2 Kings 25:4: "And the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate"
1 Chronicles 11:18: "And the three broke through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well"
2 Chronicles 21:17: "And they came up into Judah, and broke into it, and carried away all the substance that was found"
2 Chronicles 25:12: "from the top of the rock, that they all were broken in pieces."
2 Chronicles 32:1: "the fenced cities, and thought to win"
Nehemiah 9:11: " And thou didst divide the sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land; and their persecutors"
Job 26:8: "the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under"
Job 28:10: " He cutteth out rivers among the rocks; and his eye seeth every precious thing."
Job 32:19: "is as wine which hath no vent; it is ready to burst like new bottles."
Psalms 74:15: "Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up mighty rivers."
Psalms 78:13: " He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as a heap."
Psalms 78:15: " He cleaved the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the great depths."
Psalms 141:7: "mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth."
Proverbs 3:20: "By his knowledge the depths are broken up, and the clouds drop down the dew."
Ecclesiastes 10:9: "Whoso removeth stones shall be hurt therewith; and he that cleaveth wood shall be endangered"
Isaiah 7:6: "Let us go up against Judah, and vex it, and let us make a breach therein for us, and set a king in the midst"
Isaiah 34:15: "shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow: there shall the vultures"
Isaiah 35:6: "for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert."
Isaiah 48:21: "he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them: he cleaved the rock also, and the waters gushed out."
Isaiah 58:8: "Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness"
Isaiah 59:5: " They hatch cockatrice' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that eateth of their eggs"
Isaiah 59:5: "of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper."
Isaiah 63:12: "of Moses with his glorious arm, dividing the water before them, to make"
Jeremiah 39:2: "month, the ninth day of the month, the city was broken up."
Jeremiah 52:7: "Then the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled, and went forth out of the city"
Ezekiel 13:11: "O great hailstones, shall fall; and a stormy wind shall rend"
Ezekiel 13:13: "saith the Lord GOD; I will even rend it with a stormy wind in my fury; and there shall be"
Ezekiel 26:10: "and of the chariots, when he shall enter into thy gates, as men enter into a city wherein is made a breach."
Ezekiel 29:7: "When they took hold of thee by thy hand, thou didst break, and rend all their shoulder: and when they leaned upon"
Ezekiel 30:16: "shall have great pain, and No shall be rent asunder, and Noph shall have distresses daily."
Hosea 13:8: "them like a lion: the wild beast shall tear"
Hosea 13:16: "their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up."
Amos 1:13: "I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have ripped up the women with child of Gilead, they might enlarge"
Micah 1:4: "shall be molten under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire,"
Habakkuk 3:9: "according to the oaths of the tribes, even thy word. Selah. Thou didst cleave the earth with rivers."
