Definition
a primitive root; to weep; generally to bemoan
Traditional renderings: × at all, bewail, complain, make lamentation, × more, mourn, × sore, × with tears, weep.
Traditional renderings: × at all, bewail, complain, make lamentation, × more, mourn, × sore, × with tears, weep.
In the Greek Old Testament
How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders בָּכָה:
Usage patterns
Occurrences
114 total
- Jeremiah 50:4וּבָכוֹ֙ · weeping“In those days and at that time, declares the LORD, the children of Israel and the children of Judah will come together, weeping as they come, and will seek the LORD their God.
- Lamentations 1:2בָּכ֨וֹ · She weeps aloud; תִבְכֶּ֜הShe weeps aloud in the night, with tears upon her cheeks. Among all her lovers there is no one to comfort her. All her friends have betrayed her; they have become her enemies.
- Lamentations 1:16בוֹכִיָּ֗ה · weepFor these things I weep; my eyes flow with tears. For there is no one nearby to comfort me, no one to revive my soul. My children are destitute because the enemy has prevailed.
- Ezekiel 8:14מְבַכּ֖וֹת · weepingThen He brought me to the entrance of the north gate of the house of the LORD, and I saw women sitting there, weeping for Tammuz.
- Ezekiel 24:16תִבְכֶּ֔ה · or weep“Son of man, behold, I am about to take away the desire of your eyes with a fatal blow. But you must not mourn or weep or let your tears flow.
- Ezekiel 24:23תִבְכּ֑וּ · weepYour turbans will remain on your heads and your sandals on your feet. You will not mourn or weep, but you will waste away because of your sins, and you will groan among yourselves.
- Ezekiel 27:31וּבָכ֥וּ · They will weepThey will shave their heads for you and wrap themselves in sackcloth. They will weep over you with anguish of soul and bitter mourning.
- Hosea 12:4בָּכָ֖ה · he weptYes, he struggled with the angel and prevailed; he wept and sought His favor; he found Him at Bethel and spoke with Him there—
- Joel 1:5וּבְכ֔וּ · and weepWake up, you drunkards, and weep; wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine, for it has been cut off from your mouth.
- Joel 2:17יִבְכּוּ֙ · weepLet the priests who minister before the LORD weep between the portico and the altar, saying, “Spare Your people, O LORD, and do not make Your heritage a reproach, an object of scorn among the nations. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’”
- Micah 1:10בָּכ֖וֹ · do not weep; תִּבְכּ֑וּ · at allDo not tell it in Gath; do not weep at all. Roll in the dust in Beth-leaphrah.
- Zechariah 7:3הַֽאֶבְכֶּה֙ · Should I weep…by asking the priests of the house of the LORD of Hosts, as well as the prophets, “Should I weep and fast in the fifth month, as I have done these many years?”