Hebrew verb · H943
בּוּךְ
bukbook
to perplex
3 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: bûwk
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H943is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H943
to involve (literally or figuratively)
The King James renders it: be entangled, (perplexed).
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
buk is rendered "to perplex". It stands 3 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- One of the uses stand in Exodus, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 14:3For Pharaoh will say of the Israelites, ‘They are wandering the land in confusion; the wilderness has boxed them in.’
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
For Pharaoh will say of the Israelites, ‘They are wandering the land in confusion; the wilderness has boxed them in.’
Exodus 14:3נְבֻכִ֥ים
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
- it was in confusion1
- they have wandered in confusion1
- wandering in confusion1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| בּוּשׁ | bush | be ashamed | Uses127 |
| בּוּז | buz | to despise | Uses12 |
| בּוּס | bus | to trample | Uses12 |
| בּוּז | buz | contempt | Uses11 |
| בּוּץ | buts | fine linen | Uses8 |
| בּוּשָׁה | bushah | shame | Uses4 |
| בּוּל | bul | produce | Uses2 |
| בּוּזִי | Buzi | Buzite | Uses2 |
| בּוּל | Bul | Bul | Uses1 |
| בּוּר | bur | to explain | Uses1 |
| בּוּת | buth | to lodge | Uses1 |
| בּוּזָה | buzah | contempt | Uses1 |
and 1 more on the stem.
All 3, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 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
- נָבֽוֹכָה׃ פ1
- נָבֹ֙כוּ֙1
- נְבֻכִ֥ים1
The grammar of each form
- verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural1HVNp3cp
- verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singular1HVNp3fs
- verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine plural1HVNrmpa
Exodus
one use
For Pharaoh will say of the Israelites, ‘They are wandering the land in confusion; the wilderness has boxed them in.’
- נְבֻכִ֥יםnevukhimverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: wandering in confusion
Esther
one use
The couriers left, spurred on by the king’s command, and the edict was issued in the citadel of Susa. Then the king and Haman sat down to drink, but the city of Susa was in confusion.
- נָבֽוֹכָה׃ פnavokhahverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it was in confusion
Joel
one use
How the cattle groan! The herds wander in confusion because they have no pasture. Even the flocks of sheep are suffering.
- נָבֹ֙כוּ֙navokhuverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have wandered in confusion
The letters
Gematria 28· 508 mispar gadol
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.