Bakah

baw-kaw'
Parts of Speech Verb

Bakah Definition

NAS Word Usage - Total: 108
  1. to weep, bewail, cry, shed tears
    1. (Qal)
      1. to weep (in grief, humiliation, or joy)
      2. to weep bitterly (with cognate acc.)
      3. to weep upon (embrace and weep)
      4. to bewail
    2. (Piel) participle
      1. lamenting
      2. bewailing
Audio Pronunciation
Original Language
hkb
Origin
a primitive root
Strong's Number
1058
TDNT Entry
TWOT - 243

NAS Word Usage

bewail
1
crying
1
mourn
1
sob
1
weep
27
weep not at all
1
weep continually
1
weep...longer
1
weeping
12
weeps bitterly
1
wept
60
wept bitterly
1
Total
108

The Hebrew lexicon is Brown, Driver, Briggs, Gesenius Lexicon; this is keyed to the "Theological Word Book of the Old Testament." These files are considered public domain.

Brown, Driver, Briggs and Gesenius. "Hebrew Lexicon entry for Bakah". "The NAS Old Testament Hebrew Lexicon". . .