בָּכָהbâkâh
weep, bewail
Pronunciation: baw-kaw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H1058
Meanings
Qal: construct (Genesis 43:14; Hosea 12:5; Deuteronomy 21:13)
1. weep, (in grief, humiliation, or joy) (Genesis 42:24; Genesis 43:30; Exodus 2:6)
2. with accusative cognate בְּכִי (Judges 21:2; 2 Samuel 13:36; 2 Kings 20:3)
3. followed by עַל weep upon, i.e. embrace and weep (Genesis 45:14; Genesis 46:29; Genesis 45:15)
4. bewail, followed by accusative (Genesis 23:2; Genesis 37:35; Genesis 50:3)
5. followed by עַל in sense of burden, annoy with weeping (Numbers 11:13; Judges 14:16; Judges 14:17)
6. of penitent weeping (Judges 20:23; Judges 21:2; Deuteronomy 1:45)
Pi`el: lament, bewail (Jeremiah 31:25; Ezekiel 8:14)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 114 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 21:16 Then she went and sat down by herself about a hundred yards away. “I don’t want to watch the boy die,” she said, as she burst into tears.
- Genesis 23:2 she died at Kiriath-arba (now called Hebron) in the land of Canaan. There Abraham mourned and wept for her.
- Genesis 27:38 Esau pleaded, “But do you have only one blessing? Oh my father, bless me, too!” Then Esau broke down and wept.
- Genesis 29:11 Then Jacob kissed Rachel, and he wept aloud.
- Genesis 33:4 Then Esau ran to meet him and embraced him, threw his arms around his neck, and kissed him. And they both wept.
- Genesis 37:35 His family all tried to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. “I will go to my grave mourning for my son,” he would say, and then he would weep.
See every passage
- Genesis 21:16, 23:2, 27:38, 29:11, 33:4, 37:35, 42:24, 43:30, 45:14, 45:15, 46:29, 50:1, 50:3, 50:17
- Exodus 2:6
- Leviticus 10:6
- Numbers 11:4, 11:10, 11:13, 11:18, 11:20, 14:1, 20:29, 25:6
- Deuteronomy 1:45, 21:13, 34:8
- Judges 2:4, 11:37, 11:38, 14:16, 14:17, 20:23, 20:26, 21:2
- Ruth 1:9, 1:14
- 1 Samuel 1:7, 1:8, 1:10, 11:4, 11:5, 20:41, 24:16, 30:4
- 2 Samuel 1:12, 1:24, 3:16, 3:32, 3:34, 12:21, 12:22, 13:36, 15:23, 15:30, 18:33, 19:1
- 2 Kings 8:11, 8:12, 13:14, 20:3, 22:19
- 2 Chronicles 34:27
- Ezra 3:12, 10:1
- Nehemiah 1:4, 8:9
- Esther 8:3
- Job 2:12, 27:15, 30:25, 30:31, 31:38
- Psalms 69:10, 78:64, 126:6, 137:1
- Ecclesiastes 3:4
- Isaiah 16:9, 30:19, 33:7, 38:3
- Jeremiah 9:1, 13:17, 22:10, 31:15, 41:6, 48:32, 50:4
- Lamentations 1:2, 1:16
- Ezekiel 8:14, 24:16, 24:23, 27:31
- Hosea 12:4
- Joel 1:5, 2:17
- Micah 1:10
- Zechariah 7:3
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).