Hebrew noun (masculine) · H1057
בָּכָא
bakabaw-kaw'
balsam
4 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: bâkâʼ
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1057is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 4spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H1057
the weeping tree (some gum-distilling tree, perhaps the balsam)
The King James renders it: mulberry tree.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
baka is rendered "balsam". It stands 4 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- Two of the uses stand in 2 Samuel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.2 Samuel 5:23So David inquired of the LORD, who answered, “Do not march straight up, but circle around behind them and attack them in front of the balsam trees.
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
So David inquired of the LORD, who answered, “Do not march straight up, but circle around behind them and attack them in front of the balsam trees.
2 Samuel 5:23בְּכָאִֽים׃
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's four uses are in 2 Samuel.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- the balsam trees3
- balsam trees1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 4, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- בְּכָאִֽים׃1
- הַבְּכָאִ֖ים1
- הַבְּכָאִ֔ים1
- הַבְּכָאִֽים׃1
The grammar of each form
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine plural3HTd/Ncmpa
- noun · masculine plural1HNcmpa
2 Samuel
two uses
So David inquired of the LORD, who answered, “Do not march straight up, but circle around behind them and attack them in front of the balsam trees.
- בְּכָאִֽים׃bekhaimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: balsam trees
As soon as you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the balsam trees, move quickly, because this will mean that the LORD has marched out before you to strike the camp of the Philistines.”
- הַבְּכָאִ֖יםhabekhaimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the balsam trees
1 Chronicles
two uses
So David again inquired of God, who answered him, “Do not march up after them, but circle around them and attack them in front of the balsam trees.
- הַבְּכָאִֽים׃habekhaimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the balsam trees
As soon as you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the balsam trees, move out to battle, because this will mean that God has marched out before you to strike the camp of the Philistines.”
- הַבְּכָאִ֔יםhabekhaimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the balsam trees
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.