Hebrew noun (masculine) · H1217
בָּצֵק
batseqbaw-tsake'
dough
5 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: bâtsêq
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1217is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 5spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H1217
dough (as swelling by fermentation)
The King James renders it: dough, flour.
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
batseq is rendered "dough". It stands 5 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- Two of the uses stand in Exodus, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 12:34So the people took their dough before it was leavened, carrying it on their shoulders in kneading bowls wrapped in clothing.
- The Greek text spells it five different ways.
The first use
So the people took their dough before it was leavened, carrying it on their shoulders in kneading bowls wrapped in clothing.
Exodus 12:34בְּצֵק֖וֹ
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
- dough2
- the dough2
- dough its1
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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| בָּצַר | batsar | to gather/restrain/fortify | Uses37 |
| בָּצַע | batsa | to cut off | Uses16 |
| בָּצִיר | batsir | vintage | Uses8 |
| בָּצֵק | batseq | to swell | Uses2 |
| בָּצוֹר | batsor | old-growth | Usesnot recorded |
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 5, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
5 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
- בָּצֵ֑ק1
- בָּצֵ֖ק1
- בְּצֵק֖וֹ1
- הַבָּצֵ֜ק1
- הַבָּצֵ֤ק1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine singular2HNcmsa
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular2HTd/Ncmsa
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HNcmsc/Sp3ms
Exodus
two uses
So the people took their dough before it was leavened, carrying it on their shoulders in kneading bowls wrapped in clothing.
- בְּצֵק֖וֹbetzekonoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: dough its
Since their dough had no leaven, the people baked what they had brought out of Egypt into unleavened loaves. For when they had been driven out of Egypt, they could not delay and had not prepared any provisions for themselves.
- הַבָּצֵ֜קhabatzekthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the dough
2 Samuel
one use
So Tamar went to the house of her brother Amnon, who was lying down. She took some dough, kneaded it, made cakes in his sight, and baked them.
- הַבָּצֵ֤קhabatzekthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the dough
Jeremiah
one use
The sons gather wood, the fathers light the fire, and the women knead the dough to make cakes for the Queen of Heaven; they pour out drink offerings to other gods to provoke Me to anger.
- בָּצֵ֑קbatzeknoun · masculine singulartagged: dough
Hosea
one use
They are all adulterers, like an oven heated by a baker who needs not stoke the fire from the kneading to the rising of the dough.
- בָּצֵ֖קbatzeknoun · masculine singulartagged: dough
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.