בָּכָה
ba.khah
1. to weep, bewail, cry, shed tears
a. (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
b. (Piel) participle
1. lamenting
2. bewailing
Lexicon: STEPBible Tyndale House Brief Lexicons (TBESH / TBESG) (CC BY 4.0)
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Concordance 100 verses
- Genesis 21:16 וַתֵּֽבְךְּ׃
Then she went off and sat down nearby, about a bowshot away, for she said, “I cannot bear to watch the boy die!” And as she sat nearby, she lifted up her voice and wept.
- Genesis 23:2 וְלִבְכֹּתָֽהּ׃
She died in Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan, and Abraham went out to mourn and to weep for her.
- Genesis 27:38 וַיֵּֽבְךְּ׃
Esau said to his father, “Do you have only one blessing, my father? Bless me too, O my father!” Then Esau wept aloud.
- Genesis 29:11 וַיֵּֽבְךְּ׃
Then Jacob kissed Rachel and wept aloud.
- Genesis 33:4 וַיִּבְכּֽוּ׃
Esau, however, ran to him and embraced him, threw his arms around his neck, and kissed him. And they both wept.
- Genesis 37:35 וַיֵּ֥בְךְּ
All his sons and daughters tried to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. “No,” he said. “I will go down to Sheol mourning for my son.” So his father wept for him.
- Genesis 42:24 וַיֵּ֑בְךְּ
And he turned away from them and wept. When he turned back and spoke to them, he took Simeon from them and had him bound before their eyes.
- Genesis 43:30 לִבְכּ֑וֹתוַיֵּ֥בְךְּ
Joseph hurried out because he was moved to tears for his brother, and he went to a private room to weep.
- Genesis 45:14 וַיֵּ֑בְךְּבָּכָ֖ה
Then Joseph threw his arms around his brother Benjamin and wept, and Benjamin wept as they embraced.
- Genesis 45:15 וַיֵּ֣בְךְּ
Joseph kissed each of his brothers as he wept over them. And afterward his brothers talked with him.
- Genesis 46:29 וַיֵּ֥בְךְּ
Joseph prepared his chariot and went there to meet his father Israel. Joseph presented himself to him, embraced him, and wept profusely.
- Genesis 50:1 וַיֵּ֥בְךְּ
Then Joseph fell upon his father’s face, wept over him, and kissed him.
- Genesis 50:3 וַיִּבְכּ֥וּ
taking the forty days required to complete the embalming. And the Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.
- Genesis 50:17 וַיֵּ֥בְךְּ
‘This is what you are to say to Joseph: I beg you, please forgive the transgression and sin of your brothers, for they did you wrong.’ So now, Joseph, please forgive the transgression of the servants of the God of your father.” When their message came to him, Joseph wept.
- Exodus 2:6 בֹּכֶ֑ה
When she opened it, she saw the child, and behold, the little boy was crying. So she had compassion on him and said, “This is one of the Hebrew children.”
- Leviticus 10:6 יִבְכּוּ֙
Then Moses said to Aaron and his sons Eleazar and Ithamar, “Do not let your hair become disheveled and do not tear your garments, or else you will die, and the LORD will be angry with the whole congregation. But your brothers, the whole house of Israel, may mourn on account of the fire that the LORD has ignited.
- Numbers 11:4 וַיִּבְכּ֗וּ
Meanwhile, the rabble among them had a strong craving for other food, and again the Israelites wept and said, “Who will feed us meat?
- Numbers 11:10 בֹּכֶה֙
Then Moses heard the people of family after family weeping at the entrances to their tents, and the anger of the LORD was kindled greatly, and Moses was also displeased.
- Numbers 11:13 יִבְכּ֤וּ
Where can I get meat for all these people? For they keep crying out to me, ‘Give us meat to eat!’
- Numbers 11:18 בְּכִיתֶם֩
And say to the people: Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, and you will eat meat, because you have cried out in the hearing of the LORD, saying: ‘Who will feed us meat? For we were better off in Egypt!’ Therefore the LORD will give you meat, and you will eat.
- Numbers 11:20 וַתִּבְכּ֤וּ
but for a whole month—until it comes out of your nostrils and makes you nauseous—because you have rejected the LORD, who is among you, and have cried out before Him, saying, ‘Why did we ever leave Egypt?’”
- Numbers 14:1 וַיִּבְכּ֥וּ
Then the whole congregation lifted up their voices and cried out, and that night the people wept.
- Numbers 20:29 וַיִּבְכּ֤וּ
When the whole congregation saw that Aaron had died, the entire house of Israel mourned for him thirty days.
- Numbers 25:6 בֹכִ֔ים
Just then an Israelite man brought to his family a Midianite woman in the sight of Moses and the whole congregation of Israel while they were weeping at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.
- Deuteronomy 1:45 וַתִּבְכּ֖וּ
And you returned and wept before the LORD, but He would not listen to your voice or give ear to you.
- Deuteronomy 21:13 וּבָֽכְתָ֛ה
and put aside the clothing of her captivity. After she has lived in your house a full month and mourned her father and mother, you may have relations with her and be her husband, and she shall be your wife.
- Deuteronomy 34:8 וַיִּבְכּוּ֩
The Israelites grieved for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days, until the time of weeping and mourning for Moses came to an end.
- Judges 2:4 וַיִּבְכּֽוּ׃
When the angel of the LORD had spoken these words to all the Israelites, the people lifted up their voices and wept.
- Judges 11:37 וְאֶבְכֶּה֙
She also said to her father, “Let me do this one thing: Let me wander for two months through the mountains with my friends and mourn my virginity.”
- Judges 11:38 וַתֵּ֥בְךְּ
“Go,” he said. And he sent her away for two months. So she left with her friends and mourned her virginity upon the mountains.
- Judges 14:16 וַתֵּבְךְּ֩
Then Samson’s wife came to him, weeping, and said, “You hate me! You do not really love me! You have posed to my people a riddle, but have not explained it to me.” “Look,” he said, “I have not even explained it to my father or mother, so why should I explain it to you?”
- Judges 14:17 וַתֵּ֤בְךְּ
She wept the whole seven days of the feast, and finally on the seventh day, because she had pressed him so much, he told her the answer. And in turn she explained the riddle to her people.
- Judges 20:23 וַיִּבְכּ֣וּ
They went up and wept before the LORD until evening, inquiring of Him, “Should we again draw near for battle against our brothers the Benjamites?” And the LORD answered, “Go up against them.”
- Judges 20:26 וַיִּבְכּוּ֙
Then the Israelites, all the people, went up to Bethel, where they sat weeping before the LORD. That day they fasted until evening and presented burnt offerings and peace offerings to the LORD.
- Judges 21:2 וַיִּבְכּ֖וּ
So the people came to Bethel and sat there before God until evening, lifting up their voices and weeping bitterly.
- Ruth 1:9 וַתִּבְכֶּֽינָה׃
May the LORD enable each of you to find rest in the home of your new husband.” And she kissed them as they wept aloud
- Ruth 1:14 וַתִּבְכֶּ֖ינָה
Again they wept aloud, and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law goodbye, but Ruth clung to her.
- 1 Samuel 1:7 וַתִּבְכֶּ֖ה
And this went on year after year. Whenever Hannah went up to the house of the LORD, her rival taunted her until she wept and would not eat.
- 1 Samuel 1:8 תִבְכִּ֗י
“Hannah, why are you crying?” her husband Elkanah asked. “Why won’t you eat? Why is your heart so grieved? Am I not better to you than ten sons?”
- 1 Samuel 1:10 וּבָכֹ֥התִבְכֶּֽה׃
In her bitter distress, Hannah prayed to the LORD and wept with many tears.
- 1 Samuel 11:4 וַיִּבְכּֽוּ׃
When the messengers came to Gibeah of Saul and relayed these words in the hearing of the people, they all wept aloud.
- 1 Samuel 11:5 יִבְכּ֑וּ
Just then Saul was returning from the field, behind his oxen. “What troubles the people?” asked Saul. “Why are they weeping?” And they relayed to him the words of the men from Jabesh.
- 1 Samuel 20:41 וַיִּבְכּוּ֙
When the young man had gone, David got up from the south side of the stone, fell facedown, and bowed three times. Then he and Jonathan kissed each other and wept together—though David wept more.
- 1 Samuel 24:16 וַיֵּֽבְךְּ׃
When David had finished saying these things, Saul called back, “Is that your voice, David my son?” Then Saul wept aloud
- 1 Samuel 30:4 וַיִּבְכּ֑וּלִבְכּֽוֹת׃
So David and the troops with him lifted up their voices and wept until they had no strength left to weep.
- 2 Samuel 1:12 וַיִּבְכּ֔וּ
They mourned and wept and fasted until evening for Saul and his son Jonathan, and for the people of the LORD and the house of Israel, because they had fallen by the sword.
- 2 Samuel 1:24 בְּכֶ֑ינָה
O daughters of Israel, weep for Saul, who clothed you in scarlet and luxury, who decked your garments with ornaments of gold.
- 2 Samuel 3:16 וּבָכֹ֛ה
Her husband followed her, weeping all the way to Bahurim. Then Abner said to him, “Go back.” So he returned home.
- 2 Samuel 3:32 וַיֵּבְךְּ֙וַיִּבְכּ֖וּ
When they buried Abner in Hebron, the king wept aloud at Abner’s tomb, and all the people wept.
- 2 Samuel 3:34 לִבְכּ֥וֹת
Your hands were not bound, your feet were not fettered. As a man falls before the wicked, so also you fell.” And all the people wept over him even more.