Hebrew noun (masculine) · H1065
בְּכִי
Bekibek-ee'
weeping
30 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: Bᵉkîy
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1065is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 13 of 39Old Testament books
- 24spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H1065
a weeping; by analogy, a dripping
The King James renders it: overflowing, [idiom] sore, (continual) weeping, wept.
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
Beki is rendered "weeping". It stands 30 times in the Hebrew text, across thirteen books.
- Eight of the uses stand in Isaiah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 45:2But he wept so loudly that the Egyptians heard him, and Pharaoh’s household soon heard of it.
- The Greek text spells it twenty-four different ways.
The first use
But he wept so loudly that the Egyptians heard him, and Pharaoh’s household soon heard of it.
Genesis 45:2בִּבְכִ֑י
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
- weeping9
- weeping of4
- with weeping4
- for weeping2
- from weeping2
- a weeping1
- and weeping1
- and with weeping1
- in the weeping1
- in weeping1
- more than weeping of1
- weeping my1
and 2 more, 30 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.
The words it stands beside
All 30, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
24 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
- בְּכִ֥י4
- בְּכִ֖י3
- בְּכִ֣י2
- בִּבְכִ֑י1
- בִּבְכִ֥י1
- בִּבְכִי֙1
- בִּבְכִ֤י1
- בִּבְכִ֣י1
- בִּבְכִ֖י1
- בַּבֶּ֑כִי1
- בַּבֶּֽכִי׃1
- בְכִ֖י1
and 12 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine singular10HNcmsa
- preposition + noun · masculine singular9HR/Ncmsa
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)4HNcmsc
- preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)2HR/Ncmsc
- preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular2HRd/Ncmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular1HC/Ncmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singular1HC/R/Ncmsa
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular1HNcmsc/Sp1bs
Genesis
one use
But he wept so loudly that the Egyptians heard him, and Pharaoh’s household soon heard of it.
- בִּבְכִ֑יbivkhipreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: in weeping
Deuteronomy
one use
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.
- בְכִ֖יvekhinoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: weeping of
Judges
one use
So the people came to Bethel and sat there before God until evening, lifting up their voices and weeping bitterly.
- בְּכִ֥יbekhinoun · masculine singulartagged: weeping
2 Samuel
one use
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.
- בְּכִ֖יbekhinoun · masculine singulartagged: a weeping
2 Kings
one use
“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.
- בְּכִ֥יbekhinoun · masculine singulartagged: weeping
Ezra
one use
The people could not distinguish the shouts of joy from the sound of weeping, because the people were making so much noise. And the sound was heard from afar.
- בְּכִ֣יbekhinoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: weeping of
Esther
one use
In every province to which the king’s command and edict came, there was great mourning among the Jews. They fasted, wept, and lamented, and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.
- וּבְכִ֖יuvekhiconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and weeping
Job
two uses
Psalms
three uses
Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity, for the LORD has heard my weeping.
- בִּכְיִֽי׃bikhyinoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: weeping my
For His anger is fleeting, but His favor lasts a lifetime. Weeping may stay the night, but joy comes in the morning.
- בֶּ֗כִיbekhinoun · masculine singulartagged: weeping
For I have eaten ashes like bread and mixed my drink with tears
- בִּבְכִ֥יbivkhipreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: with weeping
Isaiah
eight uses
Dibon goes up to its temple to weep at its high places. Moab wails over Nebo, as well as over Medeba. Every head is shaved, every beard is cut off.
- לְבֶ֑כִיlevekhipreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: for weeping
In its streets they wear sackcloth; on the rooftops and in the public squares they all wail, falling down weeping.
- בַּבֶּֽכִי׃babekhipreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the weeping
My heart cries out over Moab; her fugitives flee as far as Zoar, as far as Eglath-shelishiyah. With weeping they ascend the slope of Luhith; they lament their destruction on the road to Horonaim.
- בִּבְכִי֙bivkhipreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: with weeping
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.
- בִּבְכִ֤יbivkhipreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: with weeping of
Therefore I said, “Turn away from me, let me weep bitterly! Do not try to console me over the destruction of the daughter of my people.”
- בַּבֶּ֑כִיbabekhipreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: with the weeping
On that day the Lord GOD of Hosts called for weeping and wailing, for shaven heads and the wearing of sackcloth.
- לִבְכִי֙livkhipreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: for weeping
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.
- בְּכִ֥יbekhinoun · masculine singulartagged: weeping
I will rejoice in Jerusalem and take delight in My people. The sounds of weeping and crying will no longer be heard in her.
- בְּכִ֖יbekhinoun · masculine singulartagged: weeping
Jeremiah
eight uses
A voice is heard on the barren heights, the children of Israel weeping and begging for mercy, because they have perverted their ways and forgotten the LORD their God.
- בְּכִ֥יbekhinoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: weeping of
I will take up a weeping and wailing for the mountains, a dirge over the wilderness pasture, for they have been scorched so no one passes through, and the lowing of cattle is not heard. Both the birds of the air and the beasts have fled; they have gone away.
- בְכִ֣יvekhinoun · masculine singulartagged: weeping
They will come with weeping, and by their supplication I will lead them; I will make them walk beside streams of waters, on a level path where they will not stumble. For I am Israel’s Father, and Ephraim is My firstborn.”
- בִּבְכִ֣יbivkhipreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: with weeping
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.”
- בְּכִ֣יbekhinoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: weeping of
This is what the LORD says: “Keep your voice from weeping and your eyes from tears, for the reward for your work will come, declares the LORD. Then your children will return from the land of the enemy.
- מִבֶּ֔כִיmibekhipreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: from weeping
For on the ascent to Luhith they weep bitterly as they go, and on the descent to Horonaim cries of distress resound over the destruction:
- בִּבְכִ֖יbivkhipreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: with weeping
- בֶּ֑כִיbekhinoun · masculine singulartagged: 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.
- מִבְּכִ֨יmibekhipreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: more than weeping of
Joel
one use
“Yet even now,” declares the LORD, “return to Me with all your heart, with fasting, weeping, and mourning.”
- וּבְבְכִ֖יuvevekhiconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: and with weeping
Malachi
one use
And this is another thing you do: You cover the altar of the LORD with tears, with weeping and groaning, because He no longer regards your offerings or receives them gladly from your hands.
- בְּכִ֖יbekhinoun · masculine singulartagged: weeping
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 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.
