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׃And she goeth and sitteth by herself over-against, afar off, about a bow-shot, for she said, ‘Let me not look on the death of the lad;’ and she sitteth over-against, and lifteth up her voice, and weepeth.Genesis 23:2 · וְלִבְכֹּתָֽהּ׃and Sarah dieth in Kirjath-Arba, which is Hebron, in the land of Caanan, and Abraham goeth in to mourn for Sarah, and to bewail her.Genesis 27:38 · וַיֵּֽבְךְּ׃And Esau saith unto his father, ‘One blessing hast thou my father? bless me, me also, O my father;’ and Esau lifteth up his voice, and weepeth.Genesis 29:11 · וַיֵּֽבְךְּ׃And Jacob kisseth Rachel, and lifteth up his voice, and weepeth,Genesis 33:4 · וַיִּבְכּֽוּ׃and Esau runneth to meet him, and embraceth him, and falleth on his neck, and kisseth him, and they weep;Genesis 37:35 · וַיֵּ֥בְךְּand all his sons and all his daughters rise to comfort him, and he refuseth to comfort himself, and saith, ‘For—I go down mourning unto my son, to Sheol,’ and his father weepeth for him.Genesis 42:24 · וַיֵּ֑בְךְּand he turneth round from them, and weepeth, and turneth back unto them, and speaketh unto them, and taketh from them Simeon, and bindeth him before their eyes.Genesis 43:30 · לִבְכּ֑וֹת · וַיֵּ֥בְךְּAnd Joseph hasteth, for his bowels have been moved for his brother, and he seeketh to weep, and entereth the inner chamber, and weepeth there;Genesis 45:14 · וַיֵּ֑בְךְּ · בָּכָ֖הAnd he falleth on the neck of Benjamin his brother, and weepeth, and Benjamin hath wept on his neck;Genesis 45:15 · וַיֵּ֣בְךְּand he kisseth all his brethren, and weepeth over them; and afterwards have his brethren spoken with him.Genesis 46:29 · וַיֵּ֥בְךְּand Joseph harnesseth his chariot, and goeth up to meet Israel his father, to Goshen, and appeareth unto him, and falleth on his neck, and weepeth on his neck again;Genesis 50:1 · וַיֵּ֥בְךְּAnd Joseph falleth on his father’s face, and weepeth over him, and kisseth him;Genesis 50:3 · וַיִּבְכּ֥וּand they fulfil for him forty days, for so they fulfil the days of the embalmed, and the Egyptians weep for him seventy days.Genesis 50:17 · וַיֵּ֥בְךְּThus ye do say to Joseph, I pray thee, bear, I pray thee, with the transgression of thy brethren, and their sin, for they have done thee evil; and now, bear, we pray thee, with the transgression of the servants of the God of thy father;’ and Joseph weepeth in their speaking unto him.Exodus 2:6 · בֹּכֶ֑הand openeth, and seeth him—the lad, and lo, a child weeping! and she hath pity on him, and saith, ‘This is one of the Hebrews’ children.’Leviticus 10:6 · יִבְכּוּ֙And Moses saith unto Aaron, and to Eleazar, and to Ithamar his sons, ‘Your heads ye do not uncover, and your garments ye do not rend, that ye die not, and on all the company He be wroth; as to your brethren, the whole house of Israel, they bewail the burning which Jehovah hath kindled;Numbers 11:4 · וַיִּבְכּ֗וּAnd the rabble who are in its midst have lusted greatly, and the sons of Israel also turn back and weep, and say, ‘Who doth give us flesh?Numbers 11:10 · בֹּכֶה֙And Moses heareth the people weeping by its families, each at the opening of his tent, and the anger of Jehovah burneth exceedingly, and in the eyes of Moses it is evil.Numbers 11:13 · יִבְכּ֤וּWhence have I flesh to give to all this people? for they weep unto me, saying, Give to us flesh, and we eat.Numbers 11:18 · בְּכִיתֶם֩And unto the people thou dost say, Sanctify yourselves for to-morrow, and ye have eaten flesh (for ye have wept in the ears of Jehovah, saying, Who doth give us flesh? for we had good in Egypt)—and Jehovah hath given to you flesh, and ye have eaten.Numbers 11:20 · וַתִּבְכּ֤וּunto a month of days, till that it come out from your nostrils, and it hath become to you an abomination; because that ye have loathed Jehovah, who is in your midst, and weep before Him, saying, Why is this?—we have come out of Egypt!’Numbers 14:1 · וַיִּבְכּ֥וּAnd all the company lifteth up and give forth their voice, and the people weep during that night;Numbers 20:29 · וַיִּבְכּ֤וּand all the company see that Aaron hath expired, and they bewail Aaron thirty days—all the house of Israel.Numbers 25:6 · בֹכִ֔יםAnd lo, a man of the sons of Israel hath come, and bringeth in unto his brethren the Midianitess, before the eyes of Moses, and before the eyes of all the company of the sons of Israel, who are weeping at the opening of the tent of meeting;Deuteronomy 1:45 · וַתִּבְכּ֖וּ‘And ye turn back and weep before Jehovah, and Jehovah hath not hearkened to your voice, nor hath he given ear unto you;Deuteronomy 21:13 · וּבָֽכְתָ֛הand turned aside the raiment of her captivity from off her, and hath dwelt in thy house, and bewailed her father and her mother a month of days, and afterwards thou dost go in unto her and hast married her, and she hath been to thee for a wife:Deuteronomy 34:8 · וַיִּבְכּוּ֩And the sons of Israel bewail Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days; and the days of weeping and mourning for Moses are completed.Judges 2:4 · וַיִּבְכּֽוּ׃And it cometh to pass, when the messenger of Jehovah speaketh these words unto all the sons of Israel, that the people lift up their voice and weep,Judges 11:37 · וְאֶבְכֶּה֙And she saith unto her father, ‘Let this thing be done to me; desist from me two months, and I go on, and have gone down on the hills, and I weep for my virginity—I and my friends.’Judges 11:38 · וַתֵּ֥בְךְּAnd he saith, ‘Go;’ and he sendeth her away two months, and she goeth, she and her friends, and she weepeth for her virginity on the hills;Judges 14:16 · וַתֵּבְךְּ֩And Samson’s wife weepeth for it, and saith, ‘Thou hast only hated me, and hast not loved me; the riddle thou hast put forth to the sons of my people—and to me thou hast not declared it;’ and he saith to her, ‘Lo, to my father and to my mother I have not declared it—and to thee I declare it!’Judges 14:17 · וַתֵּ֤בְךְּAnd she weepeth for it the seven days in which their banquet hath been, and it cometh to pass on the seventh day that he declareth it to her, for she hath distressed him; and she declareth the riddle to the sons of her people.Judges 20:23 · וַיִּבְכּ֣וּAnd the sons of Israel go up and weep before Jehovah till the evening, and ask of Jehovah, saying, ‘Do I add to draw nigh to battle with the sons of Benjamin, my brother?’ And Jehovah saith, ‘Go up against him.’Judges 20:26 · וַיִּבְכּוּ֙And all the sons of Israel go up, even all the people, and come in to Beth-El, and weep, and sit there before Jehovah, and fast on that day till the evening, and cause to ascend burnt-offerings and peace-offerings before Jehovah.Judges 21:2 · וַיִּבְכּ֖וּAnd the people come in to Beth-El, and sit there till the evening before God, and lift up their voice, and weep—a great weeping,Ruth 1:9 · וַתִּבְכֶּֽינָה׃Jehovah doth grant to you, and find ye rest each in the house of her husband;’ and she kisseth them, and they lift up their voice and weep.Ruth 1:14 · וַתִּבְכֶּ֖ינָהAnd they lift up their voice, and weep again, and Orpah kisseth her mother-in-law, and Ruth hath cleaved to her.1 Samuel 1:7 · וַתִּבְכֶּ֖הAnd so he doth year by year, from the time of her going up into the house of Jehovah, so it provoketh her, and she weepeth, and doth not eat.1 Samuel 1:8 · תִבְכִּ֗יAnd Elkanah her husband saith to her, ‘Hannah, why weepest thou? and why dost thou not eat? and why is thy heart afflicted? am I not better to thee than ten sons?’1 Samuel 1:10 · וּבָכֹ֥ה · תִבְכֶּֽה׃And she is bitter in soul, and prayeth unto Jehovah, and weepeth greatly,1 Samuel 11:4 · וַיִּבְכּֽוּ׃And the messengers come to Gibeah of Saul, and speak the words in the ears of the people, and all the people lift up their voice and weep;1 Samuel 11:5 · יִבְכּ֑וּand lo, Saul hath come after the herd out of the field, and Saul saith, ‘What—to the people, that they weep?’ and they recount to him the words of the men of Jabesh.1 Samuel 20:41 · וַיִּבְכּוּ֙The youth hath gone, and David hath risen from Ezel, at the south, and falleth on his face to the earth, and boweth himself three times, and they kiss one another, and they weep one with another, till David exerted himself;1 Samuel 24:16 · וַיֵּֽבְךְּ׃And it cometh to pass, when David completeth to speak these words unto Saul, that Saul saith, ‘Is this thy voice, my son David?’ and Saul lifteth up his voice, and weepeth.1 Samuel 30:4 · וַיִּבְכּ֑וּ · לִבְכּֽוֹת׃And David lifteth up—and the people who are with him—their voice and weep, till that they have no power to weep.2 Samuel 1:12 · וַיִּבְכּ֔וּand they mourn, and weep, and fast till the evening, for Saul, and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of Jehovah, and for the house of Israel, because they have fallen by the sword.2 Samuel 1:24 · בְּכֶ֑ינָהDaughters of Israel! for Saul weep ye, Who is clothing you in scarlet with delights. Who is lifting up ornaments of gold on your clothing.2 Samuel 3:16 · וּבָכֹ֛הand her husband goeth with her, going on and weeping behind her, unto Bahurim, and Abner saith unto him, ‘Go, turn back;’ and he turneth back.2 Samuel 3:32 · וַיֵּבְךְּ֙ · וַיִּבְכּ֖וּAnd they bury Abner in Hebron, and the king lifteth up his voice, and weepeth at the grave of Abner, and all the people weep;2 Samuel 3:34 · לִבְכּ֥וֹתThy hands not bound, And thy feet to fetters not brought nigh! As one falling before sons of evil—Thou hast fallen!’ and all the people add to weep over him.2 Samuel 12:21 · וַתֵּ֔בְךְּAnd his servants say unto him, ‘What is this thing thou hast done? because of the living lad thou hast fasted and dost weep, and when the lad is dead thou hast risen and dost eat bread.’2 Samuel 12:22 · וָֽאֶבְכֶּ֑הAnd he saith, ‘While the lad is alive I have fasted, and weep, for I said, Who knoweth?—Jehovah doth pity me, and the lad hath lived;2 Samuel 13:36 · וַיִּבְכּ֑וּ · בָּכ֕וּAnd it cometh to pass at his finishing to speak, that lo, the sons of the king have come, and they lift up their voice, and weep, and also the king and all his servants have wept—a very great weeping.2 Samuel 15:23 · בּוֹכִים֙And all the land are weeping—a great voice, and all the people are passing over; and the king is passing over through the brook Kidron, and all the people are passing over on the front of the way of the wilderness;2 Samuel 15:30 · וּבוֹכֶ֗ה · וּבָכֹֽה׃And David is going up in the ascent of the olives, going up and weeping, and he hath the head covered, and he is going barefooted, and all the people who are with him have covered each his head, and have gone up, going up and weeping;2 Samuel 18:33 · וַיֵּ֑בְךְּAnd the king trembleth, and goeth up on the upper chamber of the gate, and weepeth, and thus he hath said in his going, ‘My son! Absalom my son; my son Absalom; oh that I had died for thee, Absalom, my son, my son.’2 Samuel 19:1 · בֹּכֶ֛הAnd it is declared to Joab, ‘Lo, the king is weeping and mourning for Absalom;’2 Kings 8:11 · וַיֵּ֖בְךְּAnd he setteth his face, yea, he setteth it till he is ashamed, and the man of God weepeth.2 Kings 8:12 · בֹכֶ֑הAnd Hazael saith, ‘Wherefore is my lord weeping?’ and he saith, ‘Because I have known the evil that thou dost to the sons of Israel—their fenced places thou dost send into fire, and their young men with sword thou dost slay, and their sucklings thou dost dash to pieces, and their pregnant women thou dost rip up.’2 Kings 13:14 · וַיֵּ֤בְךְּAnd Elisha hath been sick with his sickness in which he dieth, and come down unto him doth Joash king of Israel, and weepeth on his face, and saith, ‘My father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and its horsemen.’2 Kings 20:3 · וַיֵּ֥בְךְּI pray Thee, O Jehovah, remember, I pray Thee, how I have walked habitually before Thee in truth, and with a perfect heart, and that which is good in Thine eyes I have done;’ and Hezekiah weepeth—a great weeping.2 Kings 22:19 · וַתִּבְכֶּ֖הbecause thy heart is tender, and thou art humbled because of Jehovah, in thy hearing that which I have spoken against this place, and against its inhabitants, to be for a desolation, and for a reviling, and dost rend thy garments, and weep before Me—I also have heard—the affirmation of Jehovah—2 Chronicles 34:27 · וַתֵּ֣בְךְּBecause thy heart is tender, and thou art humbled before God in thy hearing His words concerning this place, and concerning its inhabitants, and art humbled before Me, and dost rend thy garments, and weep before Me: even I also have heard—the affirmation of Jehovah.Ezra 3:12 · בֹּכִ֖יםAnd many of the priests, and the Levites, and the heads of the fathers, the aged men who had seen the first house—in this house being founded before their eyes—are weeping with a loud voice, and many with a shout, in joy, lifting up the voice;Ezra 10:1 · בֹּכֶה֙ · בָכ֥וּAnd at Ezra’s praying, and at his making confession, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, there have been gathered unto him out of Israel an assembly very great—men and women and children—for the people have wept, multiplying weeping.Nehemiah 1:4 · וָֽאֶבְכֶּ֔הAnd it cometh to pass, at my hearing these words, I have sat down, and I weep and mourn for days, and I am fasting and praying before the God of the heavens.Nehemiah 8:9 · תִּבְכּ֑וּ · בוֹכִים֙And Nehemiah—he is the Tirshatha—saith (and Ezra the priest, the scribe, and the Levites who are instructing the people) to all the people, ‘To-day is holy to Jehovah your God, do not mourn, nor weep:’ for all the people are weeping at their hearing the words of the law.Esther 8:3 · וַתֵּ֣בְךְּAnd Esther addeth, and speaketh before the king, and falleth before his feet, and weepeth, and maketh supplication to him, to cause the evil of Haman the Agagite to pass away, and his device that he had devised against the Jews;Job 2:12 · וַיִּבְכּ֑וּand they lift up their eyes from afar and have not discerned him, and they lift up their voice and weep, and rend each his robe, and sprinkle dust on their heads—heavenward.Job 27:15 · תִבְכֶּֽינָה׃His remnant in death are buried, And his widows do not weep.Job 30:25 · בָ֭כִיתִיDid not I weep for him whose day is hard? Grieved hath my soul for the needy.Job 30:31 · בֹּכִֽים׃And my harp doth become mourning, And my organ the sound of weeping.Job 31:38 · יִבְכָּיֽוּן׃If against me my land doth cry out, And together its furrows weep,Psalm 69:10 · וָאֶבְכֶּ֣הAnd I weep in the fasting of my soul, And it is for a reproach to me.Psalm 78:64 · תִבְכֶּֽינָה׃His priests by the sword have fallen, And their widows weep not.Psalm 126:6 · וּבָכֹה֮Whoso goeth on and weepeth, Bearing the basket of seed, Surely cometh in with singing, bearing his sheaves!Psalm 137:1 · בָּכִ֑ינוּBy rivers of Babylon—There we did sit, Yea, 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 skip.Isaiah 16:9 · אֶבְכֶּ֞הTherefore I weep with the weeping of Jazer, The vine of Sibmah, I water thee with my tear, O Heshbon and Elealeh, For—for thy summer fruits, and for thy harvest, The shouting hath fallen.Isaiah 30:19 · בָּכ֣וֹ · תִבְכֶּ֗הFor the people in Zion dwell in Jerusalem, Weep thou not, weeping, Pitying, He pitieth thee at the voice of thy cry, When He heareth He answereth thee.Isaiah 33:7 · יִבְכָּיֽוּן׃Lo, ‘Their Ariel,’ they have cried without, Messengers of peace do weep bitterly.Isaiah 38:3 · וַיֵּ֥בְךְּand saith, ‘I pray thee, O Jehovah, remember, I pray Thee, how I have walked habitually before Thee in truth, and with a perfect heart, and that which is good in thine eyes I have done;’ and Hezekiah weepeth—a great weeping.Jeremiah 9:1 · וְאֶבְכֶּה֙Who doth make my head waters, And mine eye a fountain of tears? And I weep by day and by night, For the wounded of the daughter of my people.Jeremiah 13:17 · תִּבְכֶּֽה־And if ye do not hear it, In secret places doth my soul weep, because of pride, Yea, it weepeth sore, And the tear cometh down mine eyes, For the flock of Jehovah hath been taken captive.Jeremiah 22:10 · תִּבְכּ֣וּ · בְּכ֤וּ · בָכוֹ֙Ye do not weep for the dead, nor bemoan for him, Weep ye sore for the traveller, For he doth not return again, Nor hath he seen the land of his birth.Jeremiah 31:15 · מְבַכָּ֣הThus said Jehovah, A voice in Ramah is heard, wailing, weeping most bitter, Rachel is weeping for her sons, She hath refused to be comforted for her sons, because they are not.Jeremiah 41:6 · וּבֹכֶ֑הAnd Ishmael son of Nethaniah goeth forth to meet them, from Mizpah, going on and weeping, and it cometh to pass, at meeting them, that he saith unto them, ‘Come in unto Gedaliah son of Ahikam.’Jeremiah 48:32 · אֶבְכֶּה־With the weeping of Jazer, I weep for thee, O vine of Sibmah, Thy branches have passed over a sea, Unto the sea of Jazer they have come, On thy summer fruits, and on thy harvest, A spoiler hath fallen.Jeremiah 50:4 · וּבָכוֹ֙In those days, and at that time, An affirmation of Jehovah, Come in do sons of Israel, They and sons of Judah together, Going on and weeping they go, And Jehovah their God they seek.Lamentations 1:2 · בָּכ֨וֹ · תִבְכֶּ֜הShe weepeth sore in the night, And her tear is on her cheeks, There is no comforter for her out of all her lovers, All her friends dealt treacherously by her, They have been to her for enemies.Lamentations 1:16 · בוֹכִיָּ֗הFor these I am weeping, My eye, my eye, is running down with waters, For, far from me hath been a comforter, Refreshing my soul, My sons have been desolate, For mighty hath been an enemy.Hosea 12:4 · בָּכָ֖הYea, he is a prince unto the Messenger, And he overcometh by weeping, And he maketh supplication to Him, At Bethel He doth find him, And there He doth speak with us,Micah 1:10 · בָּכ֖וֹ · תִּבְכּ֑וּIn Gath tell ye not—in Acco weep not, In Beth-Aphrah, in dust roll thyself.Zechariah 7:3 · הַֽאֶבְכֶּה֙speaking unto the priests who are at the house of Jehovah of Hosts, and unto the prophets, saying, ‘Do I weep in the fifth month—being separated—as I have done these so many years?’