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
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H1058 — בָּכָה
ba.khah · to weep · Hebrew/Aramaic
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Genesis 21:16 · וַתֵּֽבְךְּ׃She went and sat down opposite him, a good way off, about a bow shot away. For she said, “Don’t let me see the death of the child.” She sat over against him, and lifted up her voice, and wept.Genesis 23:2 · וְלִבְכֹּתָֽהּ׃Sarah died in Kiriath Arba (the same is Hebron), in the land of Canaan. Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.Genesis 27:38 · וַיֵּֽבְךְּ׃Esau said to his father, “Have you but one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, my father.” Esau lifted up his voice, and wept.Genesis 29:11 · וַיֵּֽבְךְּ׃Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept.Genesis 33:4 · וַיִּבְכּֽוּ׃Esau ran to meet him, embraced him, fell on his neck, kissed him, and they wept.Genesis 37:35 · וַיֵּ֥בְךְּAll his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. He said, “For I will go down to Sheol to my son mourning.” His father wept for him.Genesis 42:24 · וַיֵּ֑בְךְּHe turned himself away from them, and wept. Then he returned to them, and spoke to them, and took Simeon from among them, and bound him before their eyes.Genesis 43:30 · לִבְכּ֑וֹת · וַיֵּ֥בְךְּJoseph hurried, for his heart yearned over his brother; and he sought a place to weep. He entered into his room, and wept there.Genesis 45:14 · וַיֵּ֑בְךְּ · בָּכָ֖הHe fell on his brother Benjamin’s neck, and wept, and Benjamin wept on his neck.Genesis 45:15 · וַיֵּ֣בְךְּHe kissed all his brothers, and wept on them. After that his brothers talked with him.Genesis 46:29 · וַיֵּ֥בְךְּJoseph prepared his chariot, and went up to meet Israel, his father, in Goshen. He presented himself to him, and fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while.Genesis 50:1 · וַיֵּ֥בְךְּJoseph fell on his father’s face, wept on him, and kissed him.Genesis 50:3 · וַיִּבְכּ֥וּForty days were fulfilled for him, for that is how many the days it takes to embalm. The Egyptians wept for him for seventy days.Genesis 50:17 · וַיֵּ֥בְךְּ‘You shall tell Joseph, “Now please forgive the disobedience of your brothers, and their sin, because they did evil to you.”’ Now, please forgive the disobedience of the servants of the God of your father.” Joseph wept when they spoke to him.Exodus 2:6 · בֹּכֶ֑הShe opened it, and saw the child, and behold, the baby cried. She had compassion on him, and said, “This is one of the Hebrews’ children.”Leviticus 10:6 · יִבְכּוּ֙Moses said to Aaron, and to Eleazar and to Ithamar, his sons, “Don’t let the hair of your heads go loose, neither tear your clothes; that you don’t die, and that he not be angry with all the congregation: but let your brothers, the whole house of Israel, bewail the burning which Yahweh has kindled.Numbers 11:4 · וַיִּבְכּ֗וּThe mixed multitude that was among them lusted exceedingly: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, “Who will give us flesh to eat?Numbers 11:10 · בֹּכֶה֙Moses heard the people weeping throughout their families, every man at the door of his tent; and the anger of Yahweh was kindled greatly; and Moses was displeased.Numbers 11:13 · יִבְכּ֤וּWhere could I get meat to give to all this people? For they weep to me, saying, ‘Give us meat, that we may eat.’Numbers 11:18 · בְּכִיתֶם֩“Say to the people, ‘Sanctify yourselves against tomorrow, and you will eat flesh; for you have wept in the ears of Yahweh, saying, “Who will give us flesh to eat? For it was well with us in Egypt.” Therefore Yahweh will give you flesh, and you will eat.Numbers 11:20 · וַתִּבְכּ֤וּbut a whole month, until it come out at your nostrils, and it is loathsome to you; because that you have rejected Yahweh who is among you, and have wept before him, saying, “Why did we come out of Egypt?”’”Numbers 14:1 · וַיִּבְכּ֥וּAll the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.Numbers 20:29 · וַיִּבְכּ֤וּWhen all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead, they wept for Aaron thirty days, even all the house of Israel.Numbers 25:6 · בֹכִ֔יםBehold, one of the children of Israel came and brought to his brothers a Midianite woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, while they were weeping at the door of the Tent of Meeting.Deuteronomy 1:45 · וַתִּבְכּ֖וּYou returned and wept before Yahweh; but Yahweh didn’t listen to your voice, nor gave ear to you.Deuteronomy 21:13 · וּבָֽכְתָ֛הand she shall put the clothing of her captivity from off her, and shall remain in your house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month: and after that you shall go in to her, and be her husband, and she shall be your wife.Deuteronomy 34:8 · וַיִּבְכּוּ֩The children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days: so the days of weeping in the mourning for Moses were ended.Judges 2:4 · וַיִּבְכּֽוּ׃It happened, when the angel of Yahweh spoke these words to all the children of Israel, that the people lifted up their voice, and wept.Judges 11:37 · וְאֶבְכֶּה֙She said to her father, “Let this thing be done for me: let me alone two months, that I may depart and go down on the mountains, and bewail my virginity, I and my companions.”Judges 11:38 · וַתֵּ֥בְךְּHe said, “Go.” He sent her away for two months: and she departed, she and her companions, and mourned her virginity on the mountains.Judges 14:16 · וַתֵּבְךְּ֩Samson’s wife wept before him, and said, “You just hate me, and don’t love me. You have put forth a riddle to the children of my people, and haven’t told it me.” He said to her, “Behold, I haven’t told it my father nor my mother, and shall I tell you?”Judges 14:17 · וַתֵּ֤בְךְּShe wept before him the seven days, while their feast lasted: and it happened on the seventh day, that he told her, because she pressed him severely; and she told the riddle to the children of her people.Judges 20:23 · וַיִּבְכּ֣וּThe children of Israel went up and wept before Yahweh until evening; and they asked of Yahweh, saying, “Shall I again draw near to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother?” Yahweh said, “Go up against him.”Judges 20:26 · וַיִּבְכּוּ֙Then all the children of Israel, and all the people, went up, and came to Bethel, and wept, and sat there before Yahweh, and fasted that day until evening; and they offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before Yahweh.Judges 21:2 · וַיִּבְכּ֖וּThe people came to Bethel, and sat there until evening before God, and lifted up their voices, and wept severely.Ruth 1:9 · וַתִּבְכֶּֽינָה׃Yahweh grant you that you may find rest, each of you in the house of her husband.” Then she kissed them, and they lifted up their voice, and wept.Ruth 1:14 · וַתִּבְכֶּ֖ינָהThey lifted up their voice, and wept again: and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth joined with her.1 Samuel 1:7 · וַתִּבְכֶּ֖הAs he did so year by year, when she went up to the house of Yahweh, so she provoked her; therefore she wept, and didn’t eat.1 Samuel 1:8 · תִבְכִּ֗יElkanah her husband said to her, “Hannah, why do you weep? Why don’t you eat? Why is your heart grieved? Am I not better to you than ten sons?”1 Samuel 1:10 · וּבָכֹ֥ה · תִבְכֶּֽה׃She was in bitterness of soul, and prayed to Yahweh, and wept bitterly.1 Samuel 11:4 · וַיִּבְכּֽוּ׃Then the messengers came to Gibeah of Saul, and spoke these words in the ears of the people: and all the people lifted up their voice, and wept.1 Samuel 11:5 · יִבְכּ֑וּBehold, Saul came following the oxen out of the field; and Saul said, “What ails the people that they weep?” They told him the words of the men of Jabesh.1 Samuel 20:41 · וַיִּבְכּוּ֙As soon as the boy was gone, David arose out of the south, and fell on his face to the ground, and bowed himself three times. They kissed one another, and wept one with another, and David wept the most.1 Samuel 24:16 · וַיֵּֽבְךְּ׃It came to pass, when David had made an end of speaking these words to Saul, that Saul said, “Is this your voice, my son David?” Saul lifted up his voice, and wept.1 Samuel 30:4 · וַיִּבְכּ֑וּ · לִבְכּֽוֹת׃Then David and the people who were with him lifted up their voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep.2 Samuel 1:12 · וַיִּבְכּ֔וּThey mourned, and wept, and fasted until evening, for Saul, and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of Yahweh, and for the house of Israel; because they were fallen by the sword.2 Samuel 1:24 · בְּכֶ֑ינָהYou daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you in scarlet delicately, who put ornaments of gold on your clothing.2 Samuel 3:16 · וּבָכֹ֛הHer husband went with her, weeping as he went, and followed her to Bahurim. Then Abner said to him, “Go! Return!” and he returned.2 Samuel 3:32 · וַיֵּבְךְּ֙ · וַיִּבְכּ֖וּThey buried Abner in Hebron: and the king lifted up his voice, and wept at the grave of Abner; and all the people wept.2 Samuel 3:34 · לִבְכּ֥וֹתYour hands were not bound, nor your feet put into fetters. As a man falls before the children of iniquity, so you fell.” All the people wept again over him.2 Samuel 12:21 · וַתֵּ֔בְךְּThen his servants said to him, “What is this that you have done? You fasted and wept for the child while he was alive; but when the child was dead, you rose up and ate bread.”2 Samuel 12:22 · וָֽאֶבְכֶּ֑הHe said, “While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept; for I said, ‘Who knows whether Yahweh will not be gracious to me, that the child may live?’2 Samuel 13:36 · וַיִּבְכּ֑וּ · בָּכ֕וּIt happened, as soon as he had finished speaking, that behold, the king’s sons came, and lifted up their voice, and wept. The king also and all his servants wept bitterly.2 Samuel 15:23 · בּוֹכִים֙All the country wept with a loud voice, and all the people passed over: the king also himself passed over the brook Kidron, and all the people passed over, toward the way of the wilderness.2 Samuel 15:30 · וּבוֹכֶ֗ה · וּבָכֹֽה׃David went up by the ascent of the Mount of Olives, and wept as he went up; and he had his head covered, and went barefoot: and all the people who were with him covered every man his head, and they went up, weeping as they went up.2 Samuel 18:33 · וַיֵּ֑בְךְּThe king was much moved, and went up to the room over the gate, and wept. As he went, he said, “My son Absalom! My son, my son Absalom! I wish I had died for you, Absalom, my son, my son!”2 Samuel 19:1 · בֹּכֶ֛הIt was told Joab, “Behold, the king weeps and mourns for Absalom.”2 Kings 8:11 · וַיֵּ֖בְךְּHe settled his gaze steadfastly on him, until he was ashamed. Then the man of God wept.2 Kings 8:12 · בֹכֶ֑הHazael said, “Why do you weep, my lord?” He answered, “Because I know the evil that you will do to the children of Israel. You will set their strongholds on fire, and you will kill their young men with the sword, and will dash in pieces their little ones, and rip up their women with child.”2 Kings 13:14 · וַיֵּ֤בְךְּNow Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness of which he died: and Joash the king of Israel came down to him, and wept over him, and said, “My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and its horsemen!”2 Kings 20:3 · וַיֵּ֥בְךְּ“Remember now, Yahweh, I beg you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight.” Hezekiah wept bitterly.2 Kings 22:19 · וַתִּבְכֶּ֖הbecause your heart was tender, and you humbled yourself before Yahweh, when you heard what I spoke against this place, and against its inhabitants, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and have torn your clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard you,’ says Yahweh.2 Chronicles 34:27 · וַתֵּ֣בְךְּbecause your heart was tender, and you humbled yourself before God, when you heard his words against this place, and against its inhabitants, and have humbled yourself before me, and have torn your clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard you,” says Yahweh.Ezra 3:12 · בֹּכִ֖יםBut many of the priests and Levites and heads of fathers’ households, the old men who had seen the first house, when the foundation of this house was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice; and many shouted aloud for joy:Ezra 10:1 · בֹּכֶה֙ · בָכ֥וּNow while Ezra prayed and made confession, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, there was gathered together to him out of Israel a very great assembly of men and women and children; for the people wept very bitterly.Nehemiah 1:4 · וָֽאֶבְכֶּ֔הIt happened, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned certain days; and I fasted and prayed before the God of heaven,Nehemiah 8:9 · תִּבְכּ֑וּ · בוֹכִים֙Nehemiah, who was the governor, and Ezra the priest the scribe, and the Levites who taught the people, said to all the people, “This day is holy to Yahweh your God. Don’t mourn, nor weep.” For all the people wept, when they heard the words of the law.Esther 8:3 · וַתֵּ֣בְךְּEsther spoke yet again before the king, and fell down at his feet, and begged him with tears to put away the mischief of Haman the Agagite, and his device that he had devised against the Jews.Job 2:12 · וַיִּבְכּ֑וּWhen they lifted up their eyes from a distance, and didn’t recognize him, they raised their voices, and wept; and they each tore his robe, and sprinkled dust on their heads toward the sky.Job 27:15 · תִבְכֶּֽינָה׃Those who remain of him shall be buried in death. His widows shall make no lamentation.Job 30:25 · בָ֭כִיתִיDidn’t I weep for him who was in trouble? Wasn’t my soul grieved for the needy?Job 30:31 · בֹּכִֽים׃Therefore my harp has turned to mourning, and my pipe into the voice of those who weep.Job 31:38 · יִבְכָּיֽוּן׃If my land cries out against me, and its furrows weep together;Psalm 69:10 · וָאֶבְכֶּ֣הWhen I wept and I fasted, that was to my reproach.Psalm 78:64 · תִבְכֶּֽינָה׃Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows couldn’t weep.Psalm 126:6 · וּבָכֹה֮He who goes out weeping, carrying seed for sowing, will certainly come again with joy, carrying his sheaves.Psalm 137:1 · בָּכִ֑ינוּBy the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down. Yes, we wept, when we remembered Zion.Ecclesiastes 3:4 · לִבְכּוֹת֙a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;Isaiah 16:9 · אֶבְכֶּ֞הTherefore I will weep with the weeping of Jazer for the vine of Sibmah. I will water you with my tears, Heshbon, and Elealeh: for on your summer fruits and on your harvest the battle shout has fallen.Isaiah 30:19 · בָּכ֣וֹ · תִבְכֶּ֗הFor the people will dwell in Zion at Jerusalem. You will weep no more. He will surely be gracious to you at the voice of your cry. When he hears you, he will answer you.Isaiah 33:7 · יִבְכָּיֽוּן׃Behold, their valiant ones cry outside; the ambassadors of peace weep bitterly.Isaiah 38:3 · וַיֵּ֥בְךְּand said, “Remember now, Yahweh, I beg you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight.” Hezekiah wept bitterly.Jeremiah 9:1 · וְאֶבְכֶּה֙Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a spring of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!Jeremiah 13:17 · תִּבְכֶּֽה־But if you will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret for your pride; and my eye shall weep bitterly, and run down with tears, because Yahweh’s flock is taken captive.Jeremiah 22:10 · תִּבְכּ֣וּ · בְּכ֤וּ · בָכוֹ֙Don’t weep for the dead, neither bemoan him; but weep bitterly for him who goes away; for he shall return no more, nor see his native country.Jeremiah 31:15 · מְבַכָּ֣הThus says Yahweh: A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping, Rachel weeping for her children; she refuses to be comforted for her children, because they are no more.Jeremiah 41:6 · וּבֹכֶ֑הIshmael the son of Nethaniah went forth from Mizpah to meet them, weeping all along as he went: and it happened, as he met them, he said to them, Come to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam.Jeremiah 48:32 · אֶבְכֶּה־With more than the weeping of Jazer will I weep for you, vine of Sibmah: your branches passed over the sea, they reached even to the sea of Jazer: on your summer fruits and on your vintage the destroyer is fallen.Jeremiah 50:4 · וּבָכוֹ֙In those days, and in that time, says Yahweh, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together; they shall go on their way weeping, and shall seek Yahweh their God.Lamentations 1:2 · בָּכ֨וֹ · תִבְכֶּ֜הShe weeps bitterly in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks; among all her lovers she has none to comfort her: All her friends have dealt treacherously with her; they are become her enemies.Lamentations 1:16 · בוֹכִיָּ֗הFor these things I weep; my eye, my eye runs down with water; Because the comforter who should refresh my soul is far from me: My children are desolate, because the enemy has prevailed.Hosea 12:4 · בָּכָ֖הIndeed, he struggled with the angel, and prevailed; he wept, and made supplication to him. He found him at Bethel, and there he spoke with us,Micah 1:10 · בָּכ֖וֹ · תִּבְכּ֑וּDon’t tell it in Gath. Don’t weep at all. At Beth Ophrah I have rolled myself in the dust.Zechariah 7:3 · הַֽאֶבְכֶּה֙and to speak to the priests of the house of Yahweh of Armies, and to the prophets, saying, “Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done these so many years?”