Hebrew Word Study · Strong’s H1058

בָּכָה

ba.khah · “to weep

Used 116 times across 25 books

Definition
1) to weep, bewail, cry, shed tears
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to weep (in grief, humiliation, or joy)
1a2) to weep bitterly (with cognate acc.)
1a3) to weep upon (embrace and weep)
1a4) to bewail
1b) (Piel) participle
1b1) lamenting
1b2) bewailing
Where it appears
Genesis
16
Exodus
1
Leviticus
1
Numbers
8
Deuteronomy
3
Judges
8
Ruth
2
1 Samuel
10
2 Samuel
15
2 Kings
6
2 Chronicles
1
Ezra
3
Nehemiah
3
Esther
1
Job
5
Psalms
4
Ecclesiastes
1
Isaiah
6
Jeremiah
9
Lamentations
3
Ezekiel
4
Hosea
1
Joel
2
Micah
2
Zechariah
1
In the text
Genesis 21:16And she went, and sat her down over against him a good way off, as it were a bowshot: for she said, Let me not see the death of the child. And she sat over against him, and lift up her voice, and wept.Genesis 23:2And Sarah died in Kirjath–arba; the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan: and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.Genesis 27:38And Esau said unto his father, Hast thou but one blessing, my father? bless me, even me also, O my father. And Esau lifted up his voice, and wept.Genesis 29:11And Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept.Genesis 33:4And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him: and they wept.Genesis 37:35And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted; and he said, For I will go down into the grave unto my son mourning. Thus his father wept for him.Genesis 42:24And he turned himself about from them, and wept; and returned to them again, and communed with them, and took from them Simeon, and bound him before their eyes.Genesis 43:30And Joseph made haste; for his bowels did yearn upon his brother: and he sought where to weep; and he entered into his chamber, and wept there.Genesis 45:14And he fell upon his brother Benjamin’s neck, and wept; and Benjamin wept upon his neck.Genesis 45:15Moreover he kissed all his brethren, and wept upon them: and after that his brethren talked with him.

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