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Hebrew verb · H1058

בָּכָה

bakahbaw-kaw'

to weep

114 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: bâkâh

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1058is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 25 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 88
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H1058

to weep; generally to bemoan

The King James renders it: [idiom] at all, bewail, complain, make lamentation, [idiom] more, mourn, [idiom] sore, [idiom] with tears, weep.

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

bakah is rendered "to weep". It stands 114 times in the Hebrew text, across twenty-five books.

  • Sixteen of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 21:16Then she went off and sat down nearby, about a bowshot away, for she said, “I cannot bear to watch the boy die!” And as she sat nearby, she lifted up her voice and wept.
  • The Greek text spells it eighty-eight different ways.

The first use

Then she went off and sat down nearby, about a bowshot away, for she said, “I cannot bear to watch the boy die!” And as she sat nearby, she lifted up her voice and wept.

Genesis 21:16וַתֵּֽבְךְּ׃

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • and he wept16
  • and they wept15
  • weeping10
  • and she wept6
  • and weeping5
  • and they wept for4
  • and you wept4
  • they wept4
  • to weep4
  • and I wept3
  • you weep3
  • he wept2

and 35 more, 114 uses in all

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.

בָּכָאbakabalsamUses4
בָּכַרbakarto be/bear firstbornUses4

All 114, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

88 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

  • וַיֵּ֥בְךְּ7
  • וַיֵּ֑בְךְּ3
  • וַיֵּֽבְךְּ׃3
  • וַיִּבְכּ֑וּ3
  • וַיִּבְכּֽוּ׃3
  • בָּכָ֖ה2
  • בֹּכֶה֙2
  • וְאֶבְכֶּה֙2
  • וַיִּבְכּ֥וּ2
  • וַיִּבְכּוּ֙2
  • וַיִּבְכּ֖וּ2
  • וַתֵּ֣בְךְּ2

and 76 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • Hc/Vqw3mp17Hc/Vqw3mp
  • Hc/Vqw3ms17Hc/Vqw3ms
  • Hc/Vqw3fs6Hc/Vqw3fs
  • conjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), infinitive absolute5HC/Vqaa
  • verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural5HVqrmpa
  • verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular5HVqrmsa
  • preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)4HR/Vqcc
  • verb · simple (qal), infinitive absolute4HVqaa
  • verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural4HVqi3mp
  • Hc/Vqw1cs3Hc/Vqw1cs
  • Hc/Vqw2ms3Hc/Vqw2ms
  • verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singular3HVqi3fs

Genesis

sixteen uses
  • Then she went off and sat down nearby, about a bowshot away, for she said, “I cannot bear to watch the boy die!” And as she sat nearby, she lifted up her voice and wept.

    Genesis 21:16

    • וַתֵּֽבְךְּ׃vatevekHc/Vqw3fstagged: and she wept
  • She died in Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan, and Abraham went out to mourn and to weep for her.

    Genesis 23:2

    • וְלִבְכֹּתָֽהּ׃velivkotahconjunction (“and”) + preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: and to weep for her
  • Esau said to his father, “Do you have only one blessing, my father? Bless me too, O my father!” Then Esau wept aloud.

    Genesis 27:38

    • וַיֵּֽבְךְּ׃vaiyevekHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he wept
  • Then Jacob kissed Rachel and wept aloud.

    Genesis 29:11

    • וַיֵּֽבְךְּ׃vaiyevekHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he wept
  • Esau, however, ran to him and embraced him, threw his arms around his neck, and kissed him. And they both wept.

    Genesis 33:4

    • וַיִּבְכּֽוּ׃vaiyivkuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they wept
  • All his sons and daughters tried to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. “No,” he said. “I will go down to Sheol mourning for my son.” So his father wept for him.

    Genesis 37:35

    • וַיֵּ֥בְךְּvaiyevekHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he wept for
  • And he turned away from them and wept. When he turned back and spoke to them, he took Simeon from them and had him bound before their eyes.

    Genesis 42:24

    • וַיֵּ֑בְךְּvaiyevekHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he wept
  • Joseph hurried out because he was moved to tears for his brother, and he went to a private room to weep.

    Genesis 43:30

    • לִבְכּ֑וֹתlivkotpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to weep
    • וַיֵּ֥בְךְּvaiyevekHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he wept
  • Then Joseph threw his arms around his brother Benjamin and wept, and Benjamin wept as they embraced.

    Genesis 45:14

    • וַיֵּ֑בְךְּvaiyevekHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he wept
    • בָּכָ֖הbakhahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he wept
  • Joseph kissed each of his brothers as he wept over them. And afterward his brothers talked with him.

    Genesis 45:15

    • וַיֵּ֣בְךְּvaiyevekHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he wept
  • Joseph prepared his chariot and went there to meet his father Israel. Joseph presented himself to him, embraced him, and wept profusely.

    Genesis 46:29

    • וַיֵּ֥בְךְּvaiyevekHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he wept
  • Then Joseph fell upon his father’s face, wept over him, and kissed him.

    Genesis 50:1

    • וַיֵּ֥בְךְּvaiyevekHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he wept
  • taking the forty days required to complete the embalming. And the Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.

    Genesis 50:3

    • וַיִּבְכּ֥וּvaiyivkuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they wept for
  • ‘This is what you are to say to Joseph: I beg you, please forgive the transgression and sin of your brothers, for they did you wrong.’ So now, Joseph, please forgive the transgression of the servants of the God of your father.” When their message came to him, Joseph wept.

    Genesis 50:17

    • וַיֵּ֥בְךְּvaiyevekHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he wept

Exodus

one use
  • When she opened it, she saw the child, and behold, the little boy was crying. So she had compassion on him and said, “This is one of the Hebrew children.”

    Exodus 2:6

    • בֹּכֶ֑הbokhehverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: crying

Leviticus

one use
  • Then Moses said to Aaron and his sons Eleazar and Ithamar, “Do not let your hair become disheveled and do not tear your garments, or else you will die, and the LORD will be angry with the whole congregation. But your brothers, the whole house of Israel, may mourn on account of the fire that the LORD has ignited.

    Leviticus 10:6

    • יִבְכּוּ֙yivkuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will weep for

Numbers

eight uses
  • Meanwhile, the rabble among them had a strong craving for other food, and again the Israelites wept and said, “Who will feed us meat?

    Numbers 11:4

    • וַיִּבְכּ֗וּvaiyivkuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they wept
  • Then Moses heard the people of family after family weeping at the entrances to their tents, and the anger of the LORD was kindled greatly, and Moses was also displeased.

    Numbers 11:10

    • בֹּכֶה֙bokhehverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: weeping
  • Where can I get meat for all these people? For they keep crying out to me, ‘Give us meat to eat!’

    Numbers 11:13

    • יִבְכּ֤וּyivkuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they are weeping
  • And say to the people: Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, and you will eat meat, because you have cried out in the hearing of the LORD, saying: ‘Who will feed us meat? For we were better off in Egypt!’ Therefore the LORD will give you meat, and you will eat.

    Numbers 11:18

    • בְּכִיתֶם֩bekhitemverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you have wept
  • but for a whole month—until it comes out of your nostrils and makes you nauseous—because you have rejected the LORD, who is among you, and have cried out before Him, saying, ‘Why did we ever leave Egypt?’”

    Numbers 11:20

    • וַתִּבְכּ֤וּvativkuHc/Vqw2mptagged: and you have wept
  • Then the whole congregation lifted up their voices and cried out, and that night the people wept.

    Numbers 14:1

    • וַיִּבְכּ֥וּvaiyivkuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they wept
  • When the whole congregation saw that Aaron had died, the entire house of Israel mourned for him thirty days.

    Numbers 20:29

    • וַיִּבְכּ֤וּvaiyivkuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they wept for
  • Just then an Israelite man brought to his family a Midianite woman in the sight of Moses and the whole congregation of Israel while they were weeping at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.

    Numbers 25:6

    • בֹכִ֔יםvokhimverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: weeping

Deuteronomy

three uses
  • And you returned and wept before the LORD, but He would not listen to your voice or give ear to you.

    Deuteronomy 1:45

    • וַתִּבְכּ֖וּvativkuHc/Vqw2mptagged: and you wept
  • and put aside the clothing of her captivity. After she has lived in your house a full month and mourned her father and mother, you may have relations with her and be her husband, and she shall be your wife.

    Deuteronomy 21:13

    • וּבָֽכְתָ֛הuvakhetahHc/Vqq3fstagged: and she will weep for
  • The Israelites grieved for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days, until the time of weeping and mourning for Moses came to an end.

    Deuteronomy 34:8

    • וַיִּבְכּוּ֩vaiyivkuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they wept for

Judges

eight uses
  • When the angel of the LORD had spoken these words to all the Israelites, the people lifted up their voices and wept.

    Judges 2:4

    • וַיִּבְכּֽוּ׃vaiyivkuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they wept
  • She also said to her father, “Let me do this one thing: Let me wander for two months through the mountains with my friends and mourn my virginity.”

    Judges 11:37

    • וְאֶבְכֶּה֙veevkehHC/Vqu1cstagged: so I may weep
  • “Go,” he said. And he sent her away for two months. So she left with her friends and mourned her virginity upon the mountains.

    Judges 11:38

    • וַתֵּ֥בְךְּvatevekHc/Vqw3fstagged: and she wept
  • Then Samson’s wife came to him, weeping, and said, “You hate me! You do not really love me! You have posed to my people a riddle, but have not explained it to me.” “Look,” he said, “I have not even explained it to my father or mother, so why should I explain it to you?”

    Judges 14:16

    • וַתֵּבְךְּ֩vatevekHc/Vqw3fstagged: and she wept
  • She wept the whole seven days of the feast, and finally on the seventh day, because she had pressed him so much, he told her the answer. And in turn she explained the riddle to her people.

    Judges 14:17

    • וַתֵּ֤בְךְּvatevekHc/Vqw3fstagged: and she wept
  • They went up and wept before the LORD until evening, inquiring of Him, “Should we again draw near for battle against our brothers the Benjamites?” And the LORD answered, “Go up against them.”

    Judges 20:23

    • וַיִּבְכּ֣וּvaiyivkuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they wept
  • Then the Israelites, all the people, went up to Bethel, where they sat weeping before the LORD. That day they fasted until evening and presented burnt offerings and peace offerings to the LORD.

    Judges 20:26

    • וַיִּבְכּוּ֙vaiyivkuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they wept
  • So the people came to Bethel and sat there before God until evening, lifting up their voices and weeping bitterly.

    Judges 21:2

    • וַיִּבְכּ֖וּvaiyivkuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they wept

Ruth

two uses
  • May the LORD enable each of you to find rest in the home of your new husband.” And she kissed them as they wept aloud

    Ruth 1:9

    • וַתִּבְכֶּֽינָה׃vativkeinahHc/Vqw3fptagged: and they wept
  • Again they wept aloud, and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law goodbye, but Ruth clung to her.

    Ruth 1:14

    • וַתִּבְכֶּ֖ינָהvativkeinahHc/Vqw3fptagged: and they wept

1 Samuel

ten uses
  • And this went on year after year. Whenever Hannah went up to the house of the LORD, her rival taunted her until she wept and would not eat.

    1 Samuel 1:7

    • וַתִּבְכֶּ֖הvativkehHc/Vqw3fstagged: and she wept
  • “Hannah, why are you crying?” her husband Elkanah asked. “Why won’t you eat? Why is your heart so grieved? Am I not better to you than ten sons?”

    1 Samuel 1:8

    • תִבְכִּ֗יtivkiverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: do you weep
  • In her bitter distress, Hannah prayed to the LORD and wept with many tears.

    1 Samuel 1:10

    • וּבָכֹ֥הuvakhohconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), infinitive absolutetagged: and utterly to weep
    • תִבְכֶּֽה׃tivkehverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: she wept
  • When the messengers came to Gibeah of Saul and relayed these words in the hearing of the people, they all wept aloud.

    1 Samuel 11:4

    • וַיִּבְכּֽוּ׃vaiyivkuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they wept
  • Just then Saul was returning from the field, behind his oxen. “What troubles the people?” asked Saul. “Why are they weeping?” And they relayed to him the words of the men from Jabesh.

    1 Samuel 11:5

    • יִבְכּ֑וּyivkuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they are weeping
  • When the young man had gone, David got up from the south side of the stone, fell facedown, and bowed three times. Then he and Jonathan kissed each other and wept together—though David wept more.

    1 Samuel 20:41

    • וַיִּבְכּוּ֙vaiyivkuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they wept for
  • When David had finished saying these things, Saul called back, “Is that your voice, David my son?” Then Saul wept aloud

    1 Samuel 24:16

    • וַיֵּֽבְךְּ׃vaiyevekHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he wept
  • So David and the troops with him lifted up their voices and wept until they had no strength left to weep.

    1 Samuel 30:4

    • וַיִּבְכּ֑וּvaiyivkuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they wept
    • לִבְכּֽוֹת׃livkotpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to weep

2 Samuel

fifteen uses
  • They mourned and wept and fasted until evening for Saul and his son Jonathan, and for the people of the LORD and the house of Israel, because they had fallen by the sword.

    2 Samuel 1:12

    • וַיִּבְכּ֔וּvaiyivkuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they wept
  • O daughters of Israel, weep for Saul, who clothed you in scarlet and luxury, who decked your garments with ornaments of gold.

    2 Samuel 1:24

    • בְּכֶ֑ינָהbekheinahverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person feminine pluraltagged: weep
  • Her husband followed her, weeping all the way to Bahurim. Then Abner said to him, “Go back.” So he returned home.

    2 Samuel 3:16

    • וּבָכֹ֛הuvakhohconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), infinitive absolutetagged: and weeping
  • When they buried Abner in Hebron, the king wept aloud at Abner’s tomb, and all the people wept.

    2 Samuel 3:32

    • וַיֵּבְךְּ֙vaiyevekHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he wept
    • וַיִּבְכּ֖וּvaiyivkuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they wept
  • Your hands were not bound, your feet were not fettered. As a man falls before the wicked, so also you fell.” And all the people wept over him even more.

    2 Samuel 3:34

    • לִבְכּ֥וֹתlivkotpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to weep
  • “What is this you have done?” his servants asked. “While the child was alive, you fasted and wept, but when he died, you got up and ate.”

    2 Samuel 12:21

    • וַתֵּ֔בְךְּvatevekHc/Vqw2mstagged: and you wept
  • David answered, “While the child was alive, I fasted and wept, for I said, ‘Who knows? The LORD may be gracious to me and let him live.’

    2 Samuel 12:22

    • וָֽאֶבְכֶּ֑הvaevkehHc/Vqw1cstagged: and I wept
  • And as he finished speaking, the sons of the king came in, wailing loudly. Then the king and all his servants also wept very bitterly.

    2 Samuel 13:36

    • וַיִּבְכּ֑וּvaiyivkuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they wept
    • בָּכ֕וּbakhuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they wept
  • Everyone in the countryside was weeping loudly as all the people passed by. And as the king crossed the Kidron Valley, all the people also passed toward the way of the wilderness.

    2 Samuel 15:23

    • בּוֹכִים֙bokhimverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: weeping
  • But David continued up the Mount of Olives, weeping as he went up. His head was covered, and he was walking barefoot. And all the people with him covered their heads and went up, weeping as they went.

    2 Samuel 15:30

    • וּבוֹכֶ֗הuvokhehconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: and weeping
    • וּבָכֹֽה׃uvakhohconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), infinitive absolutetagged: and wept
  • The king was shaken and went up to the gate chamber and wept. And as he walked, he cried out, “O my son Absalom! My son, my son Absalom! If only I had died instead of you, O Absalom, my son, my son!”

    2 Samuel 18:33

    • וַיֵּ֑בְךְּvaiyevekHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he wept
  • Then it was reported to Joab, “The king is weeping and mourning over Absalom.”

    2 Samuel 19:1

    • בֹּכֶ֛הbokhehverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: weeping

2 Kings

five uses
  • Elisha fixed his gaze steadily on him until Hazael became uncomfortable. Then the man of God began to weep.

    2 Kings 8:11

    • וַיֵּ֖בְךְּvaiyevekHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he wept
  • “Why is my lord weeping?” asked Hazael. “Because I know the evil you will do to the Israelites,” Elisha replied. “You will set fire to their fortresses, kill their young men with the sword, dash their little ones to pieces, and rip open their pregnant women.”

    2 Kings 8:12

    • בֹכֶ֑הvokhehverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: weeping
  • When Elisha had fallen sick with the illness from which he would die, Jehoash king of Israel came down to him and wept over him, saying, “My father, my father, the chariots and horsemen of Israel!”

    2 Kings 13:14

    • וַיֵּ֤בְךְּvaiyevekHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he wept
  • “Please, O LORD, remember how I have walked before You faithfully and with wholehearted devotion; I have done what was good in Your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.

    2 Kings 20:3

    • וַיֵּ֥בְךְּvaiyevekHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he wept
  • because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before the LORD when you heard what I spoke against this place and against its people, that they would become a desolation and a curse, and because you have torn your clothes and wept before Me, I have heard you,’ declares the LORD.

    2 Kings 22:19

    • וַתִּבְכֶּ֖הvativkehHc/Vqw2mstagged: and you wept

2 Chronicles

one use
  • because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before God when you heard His words against this place and against its people, and because you have humbled yourself before Me and you have torn your clothes and wept before Me, I have heard you,’ declares the LORD.

    2 Chronicles 34:27

    • וַתֵּ֣בְךְּvatevekHc/Vqw2mstagged: and you wept

Ezra

three uses
  • But many of the older priests, Levites, and family heads who had seen the first temple wept loudly when they saw the foundation of this temple. Still, many others shouted joyfully.

    Ezra 3:12

    • בֹּכִ֖יםbokhimverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: weeping
  • While Ezra prayed and made this confession, weeping and falling facedown before the house of God, a very large assembly of Israelites—men, women, and children—gathered around him, and the people wept bitterly as well.

    Ezra 10:1

    • בֹּכֶה֙bokhehverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: weeping
    • בָכ֥וּvakhuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they wept

Nehemiah

three uses
  • When I heard these words, I sat down and wept. I mourned for days, fasting and praying before the God of heaven.

    Nehemiah 1:4

    • וָֽאֶבְכֶּ֔הvaevkehHc/Vqw1cstagged: and I wept
  • Nehemiah the governor, Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites who were instructing the people said to all of them, “This day is holy to the LORD your God. Do not mourn or weep.” For all the people were weeping as they heard the words of the Law.

    Nehemiah 8:9

    • תִּבְכּ֑וּtivkuverb · simple (qal), jussive (“let him”) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you weep
    • בוֹכִים֙vokhimverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: weeping

Esther

one use
  • And once again, Esther addressed the king. She fell at his feet weeping and begged him to revoke the evil scheme of Haman the Agagite, which he had devised against the Jews.

    Esther 8:3

    • וַתֵּ֣בְךְּvatevekHc/Vqw3fstagged: and she wept

Job

five uses
  • When they lifted up their eyes from afar, they could barely recognize Job. They began to weep aloud, and each man tore his robe and threw dust in the air over his head.

    Job 2:12

    • וַיִּבְכּ֑וּvaiyivkuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they wept
  • His survivors will be buried by the plague, and their widows will not weep for them.

    Job 27:15

    • תִבְכֶּֽינָה׃tivkeinahverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine pluraltagged: they will weep
  • Have I not wept for those in trouble? Has my soul not grieved for the needy?

    Job 30:25

    • בָ֭כִיתִיvakhitiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: did I weep
  • My harp is tuned to mourning and my flute to the sound of weeping.

    Job 30:31

    • בֹּכִֽים׃bokhimverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: weepers
  • if my land cries out against me and its furrows weep together,

    Job 31:38

    • יִבְכָּיֽוּן׃yivkayunverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural + paragogic nuntagged: they wept

Psalms

four uses
  • I wept and fasted, but it brought me reproach.

    Psalms 69:10

    • וָאֶבְכֶּ֣הvaevkehHc/Vqw1cstagged: and I wept
  • His priests fell by the sword, but their widows could not lament.

    Psalms 78:64

    • תִבְכֶּֽינָה׃tivkeinahverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine pluraltagged: they wept
  • He who goes out weeping, bearing a trail of seed, will surely return with shouts of joy, carrying sheaves of grain.

    Psalms 126:6

    • וּבָכֹה֮uvakhohconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), infinitive absolutetagged: and weeping
  • By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion.

    Psalms 137:1

    • בָּכִ֑ינוּbakhinuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common pluraltagged: we wept

Ecclesiastes

one use
  • a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance,

    Ecclesiastes 3:4

    • לִבְכּוֹת֙livkotpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to weep

Isaiah

five uses
  • So I weep with Jazer for the vines of Sibmah; I drench Heshbon and Elealeh with my tears. Triumphant shouts have fallen silent over your summer fruit and your harvest.

    Isaiah 16:9

    • אֶבְכֶּ֞הʾevkehverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I weep
  • O people in Zion who dwell in Jerusalem, you will weep no more. He will surely be gracious when you cry for help; when He hears, He will answer you.

    Isaiah 30:19

    • בָּכ֣וֹbakhoverb · simple (qal), infinitive absolutetagged: certainly weep
    • תִבְכֶּ֗הtivkehverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will weep
  • Behold, their valiant ones cry aloud in the streets; the envoys of peace weep bitterly.

    Isaiah 33:7

    • יִבְכָּיֽוּן׃yivkayunverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural + paragogic nuntagged: they weep
  • saying, “Please, O LORD, remember how I have walked before You faithfully and with wholehearted devotion; I have done what was good in Your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.

    Isaiah 38:3

    • וַיֵּ֥בְךְּvaiyevekHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he wept

Jeremiah

nine uses
  • Oh, that my head were a spring of water, and my eyes a fountain of tears! I would weep day and night over the slain daughter of my people.

    Jeremiah 9:1

    • וְאֶבְכֶּה֙veevkehHC/Vqu1cstagged: so I may bewail
  • But if you do not listen, I will weep in secret because of your pride. My eyes will overflow with tears, because the LORD’s flock has been taken captive.

    Jeremiah 13:17

    • תִּבְכֶּֽה־tivkeh-verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it will weep
  • Do not weep for the dead king; do not mourn his loss. Weep bitterly for the one who is exiled, for he will never return to see his native land.

    Jeremiah 22:10

    • תִּבְכּ֣וּtivkuverb · simple (qal), jussive (“let him”) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you weep
    • בְּכ֤וּbekhuverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: weep
    • בָכוֹ֙vakhoverb · simple (qal), infinitive absolutetagged: continually to weep
  • This is what the LORD says: “A voice is heard in Ramah, mourning and great weeping, Rachel weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more.”

    Jeremiah 31:15

    • מְבַכָּ֣הmevakahverb · intensive (piel), participle · feminine singulartagged: weeping
  • And Ishmael son of Nethaniah went out from Mizpah to meet them, weeping as he went. When Ishmael encountered the men, he said, “Come to Gedaliah son of Ahikam.”

    Jeremiah 41:6

    • וּבֹכֶ֑הuvokhehconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: and weeping
  • I will weep for you, O vine of Sibmah, more than I weep for Jazer. Your tendrils have extended to the sea; they reach even to Jazer. The destroyer has descended on your summer fruit and grape harvest.

    Jeremiah 48:32

    • אֶבְכֶּה־ʾevkeh-verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will weep
  • “In those days and at that time, declares the LORD, the children of Israel and the children of Judah will come together, weeping as they come, and will seek the LORD their God.

    Jeremiah 50:4

    • וּבָכוֹ֙uvakhoconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), infinitive absolutetagged: and weeping

Lamentations

three uses
  • She weeps aloud in the night, with tears upon her cheeks. Among all her lovers there is no one to comfort her. All her friends have betrayed her; they have become her enemies.

    Lamentations 1:2

    • בָּכ֨וֹbakhoverb · simple (qal), infinitive absolutetagged: bitterly weep
    • תִבְכֶּ֜הtivkehverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: she weeps
  • For these things I weep; my eyes flow with tears. For there is no one nearby to comfort me, no one to revive my soul. My children are destitute because the enemy has prevailed.

    Lamentations 1:16

    • בוֹכִיָּ֗הvokhiyahverb · simple (qal), participle · feminine singulartagged: weeping

Ezekiel

four uses
  • Then He brought me to the entrance of the north gate of the house of the LORD, and I saw women sitting there, weeping for Tammuz.

    Ezekiel 8:14

    • מְבַכּ֖וֹתmevakotverb · intensive (piel), participle · feminine pluraltagged: bewailing
  • “Son of man, behold, I am about to take away the desire of your eyes with a fatal blow. But you must not mourn or weep or let your tears flow.

    Ezekiel 24:16

    • תִבְכֶּ֔הtivkehverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you must weep
  • Your turbans will remain on your heads and your sandals on your feet. You will not mourn or weep, but you will waste away because of your sins, and you will groan among yourselves.

    Ezekiel 24:23

    • תִבְכּ֑וּtivkuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you must weep
  • They will shave their heads for you and wrap themselves in sackcloth. They will weep over you with anguish of soul and bitter mourning.

    Ezekiel 27:31

    • וּבָכ֥וּuvakhuHc/Vqq3cptagged: and they will weep

Hosea

one use
  • Yes, he struggled with the angel and prevailed; he wept and sought His favor; he found Him at Bethel and spoke with Him there—

    Hosea 12:4

    • בָּכָ֖הbakhahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he wept

Joel

two uses
  • Wake up, you drunkards, and weep; wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine, for it has been cut off from your mouth.

    Joel 1:5

    • וּבְכ֔וּuvekhuconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: and weep
  • Let the priests who minister before the LORD weep between the portico and the altar, saying, “Spare Your people, O LORD, and do not make Your heritage a reproach, an object of scorn among the nations. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’”

    Joel 2:17

    • יִבְכּוּ֙yivkuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: let them weep

Micah

two uses
  • Do not tell it in Gath; do not weep at all. Roll in the dust in Beth-leaphrah.

    Micah 1:10

    • בָּכ֖וֹbakhoverb · simple (qal), infinitive absolutetagged: at all weep
    • תִּבְכּ֑וּtivkuverb · simple (qal), jussive (“let him”) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you weep

Zechariah

one use
  • by asking the priests of the house of the LORD of Hosts, as well as the prophets, “Should I weep and fast in the fifth month, as I have done these many years?”

    Zechariah 7:3

    • הַֽאֶבְכֶּה֙haevkehquestion particle + verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: ¿ will I weep

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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 words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.

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.

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Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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