בֹּכִיםBôkîym
proper name [of a location]: near Bethel (Judges 2:1; Judges 2:5; Judges 2:4; Genesis 35:8; Genesis 35:1)
Pronunciation: bo-keem' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H1066
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 2 times in the Bible.
- Judges 2:1 The angel of the Lord went up from Gilgal to Bokim and said to the Israelites, “I brought you out of Egypt into this land that I swore to give your ancestors, and I said I would never break my covenant with you.
- Judges 2:5 So they called the place Bokim (which means “weeping”), and they offered sacrifices there to the Lord.
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).