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בכה

Strong’s: H1058

Associated OET lemmas: בְּכִי · בָּכָה

Authors: Enio R. Mueller

Form 1

Part of speech: vb

Related lemmas: בָּכָא · בֶּכֶה · בָּכוּת · בְּכִי · בְּכִית

Sense 1: to cry, to weep, to lament, to mourn, to bewail

Semantic domains: Grieve (002001002013)

Core domains: Body (019); Weeping (194); Joy and Grief (093); Well-Being (196)

Definition: = action by which someone express his/her grief or sorrow by shedding tears, crying loud and making appropriate gestures, ◄ because of some personal or national calamity, or for a dead person

Forms: vbqal-; vbpiel

Synonyms: אבל · אֵבֶל · בֶּכֶה · בְּכִי · דמע · דִּמְעָה · זעק · חגר שַׂק · חנן · חפה רֹאשׁ · לֵבָב רעע · נֶפֶשׁ עגם · נתן קֹול · ספד · צום · קרח קָרְחָה · קרע אֶת־בְּגָדִים

Antonyms: רִנָּה · רקד · שׂחק

Show passage in OET: GEN 21:16

OET-RV GEN 21:16

16 and she went and she went a short distance away (about as far as a bow can shoot an arrow) and sat down there, because she said, “I don’t want to watch my child die.” And as she sat at a distance, she sobbed loudly.

OET-LV GEN 21:16

16 And_she _went and_she _sat to/for_her/it from_before at _a _distance like_the_shooters _of a _bow if/because she _said not let _me _look on_the _death _of the _boy and_she _sat from_before and_she _lifted _up DOM voice _of_her and_she _wept.

Show passage in OET: GEN 23:2

OET-RV GEN 23:2

2 when she died in the city of Kiryat-Arba (now called Hevron) in the Kena’an (Canaan) region. Avraham went in by her bed to weep and mourn for her.

OET-LV GEN 23:2

2 And_ Sārāh _she _died at_Qiryat- four that is_Ḩeⱱrōn in_land of _Kənaˊan/(Canaan) and_ ʼAⱱrāhām _he _went to_mourn for_Sārāh and_to_weep_for _her.

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All 100 recorded passages for this sense

GEN: OET GEN 21:16 · OET GEN 23:2 · OET GEN 27:38 · OET GEN 29:11 · OET GEN 33:4 · OET GEN 37:35 · OET GEN 42:24 · OET GEN 43:30 · OET GEN 45:14–15 · OET GEN 46:29 · OET GEN 50:1 · OET GEN 50:3 · OET GEN 50:17

EXO: OET EXO 2:6

LEV: OET LEV 10:6

NUM: OET NUM 11:4 · OET NUM 11:10 · OET NUM 11:13 · OET NUM 11:18 · OET NUM 11:20 · OET NUM 14:1 · OET NUM 20:29 · OET NUM 25:6

DEU: OET DEU 1:45 · OET DEU 21:13 · OET DEU 34:8

JDG: OET JDG 2:4 · OET JDG 11:37–38 · OET JDG 14:16–17 · OET JDG 20:23 · OET JDG 20:26 · OET JDG 21:2

RUT: OET RUT 1:9 · OET RUT 1:14

SA1: OET SA1 1:7–8 · OET SA1 1:10 · OET SA1 11:4–5 · OET SA1 20:41 · OET SA1 24:16 · OET SA1 30:4

SA2: OET SA2 1:12 · OET SA2 1:24 · OET SA2 3:16 · OET SA2 3:32 · OET SA2 3:34 · OET SA2 12:21–22 · OET SA2 13:36 · OET SA2 15:23 · OET SA2 15:30 · OET SA2 18:33 · OET SA2 19:1

KI2: OET KI2 8:11–12 · OET KI2 13:14 · OET KI2 20:3 · OET KI2 22:19

CH2: OET CH2 34:27

EZR: OET EZR 3:12 · OET EZR 10:1

NEH: OET NEH 1:4 · OET NEH 8:9

EST: OET EST 8:3

JOB: OET JOB 2:12 · OET JOB 27:15 · OET JOB 30:25 · OET JOB 30:31 · OET JOB 31:38

PSA: OET PSA 69:10 · OET PSA 78:64 · OET PSA 126:6 · OET PSA 137:1

ECC: OET ECC 3:4

ISA: OET ISA 16:9 · OET ISA 30:19 · OET ISA 33:7 · OET ISA 38:3

JER: OET JER 9:1 · OET JER 13:17 · OET JER 22:10 · OET JER 31:15 · OET JER 41:6 · OET JER 48:32 · OET JER 50:4

LAM: OET LAM 1:2 · OET LAM 1:16

EZE: OET EZE 8:14 · OET EZE 24:16 · OET EZE 24:23 · OET EZE 27:31

HOS: OET HOS 12:4

JOL: OET JOL 1:5 · OET JOL 2:17

MIC: OET MIC 1:10

ZEC: OET ZEC 7:3