בָּכָה

ba.khah

Hebrew H1058 Verb 114 occurrences in 100 verses
בָּכָה to weep

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

  1. 2 Samuel 12:21 וַתֵּ֔בְךְּ

    “What is this you have done?” his servants asked. “While the child was alive, you fasted and wept, but when he died, you got up and ate.”

  2. 2 Samuel 12:22 וָֽאֶבְכֶּ֑ה

    David answered, “While the child was alive, I fasted and wept, for I said, ‘Who knows? The LORD may be gracious to me and let him live.’

  3. 2 Samuel 13:36 וַיִּבְכּ֑וּבָּכ֕וּ

    And as he finished speaking, the sons of the king came in, wailing loudly. Then the king and all his servants also wept very bitterly.

  4. 2 Samuel 15:23 בּוֹכִים֙

    Everyone in the countryside was weeping loudly as all the people passed by. And as the king crossed the Kidron Valley, all the people also passed toward the way of the wilderness.

  5. 2 Samuel 15:30 וּבוֹכֶ֗הוּבָכֹֽה׃

    But David continued up the Mount of Olives, weeping as he went up. His head was covered, and he was walking barefoot. And all the people with him covered their heads and went up, weeping as they went.

  6. 2 Samuel 18:33 וַיֵּ֑בְךְּ

    The king was shaken and went up to the gate chamber and wept. And as he walked, he cried out, “O my son Absalom! My son, my son Absalom! If only I had died instead of you, O Absalom, my son, my son!”

  7. 2 Samuel 19:1 בֹּכֶ֛ה

    Then it was reported to Joab, “The king is weeping and mourning over Absalom.”

  8. 2 Kings 8:11 וַיֵּ֖בְךְּ

    Elisha fixed his gaze steadily on him until Hazael became uncomfortable. Then the man of God began to weep.

  9. 2 Kings 8:12 בֹכֶ֑ה

    “Why is my lord weeping?” asked Hazael. “Because I know the evil you will do to the Israelites,” Elisha replied. “You will set fire to their fortresses, kill their young men with the sword, dash their little ones to pieces, and rip open their pregnant women.”

  10. 2 Kings 13:14 וַיֵּ֤בְךְּ

    When Elisha had fallen sick with the illness from which he would die, Jehoash king of Israel came down to him and wept over him, saying, “My father, my father, the chariots and horsemen of Israel!”

  11. 2 Kings 20:3 וַיֵּ֥בְךְּ

    “Please, O LORD, remember how I have walked before You faithfully and with wholehearted devotion; I have done what was good in Your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.

  12. 2 Kings 22:19 וַתִּבְכֶּ֖ה

    because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before the LORD when you heard what I spoke against this place and against its people, that they would become a desolation and a curse, and because you have torn your clothes and wept before Me, I have heard you,’ declares the LORD.

  13. 2 Chronicles 34:27 וַתֵּ֣בְךְּ

    because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before God when you heard His words against this place and against its people, and because you have humbled yourself before Me and you have torn your clothes and wept before Me, I have heard you,’ declares the LORD.

  14. Ezra 3:12 בֹּכִ֖ים

    But many of the older priests, Levites, and family heads who had seen the first temple wept loudly when they saw the foundation of this temple. Still, many others shouted joyfully.

  15. Ezra 10:1 בֹּכֶה֙בָכ֥וּ

    While Ezra prayed and made this confession, weeping and falling facedown before the house of God, a very large assembly of Israelites—men, women, and children—gathered around him, and the people wept bitterly as well.

  16. Nehemiah 1:4 וָֽאֶבְכֶּ֔ה

    When I heard these words, I sat down and wept. I mourned for days, fasting and praying before the God of heaven.

  17. Nehemiah 8:9 תִּבְכּ֑וּבוֹכִים֙

    Nehemiah the governor, Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites who were instructing the people said to all of them, “This day is holy to the LORD your God. Do not mourn or weep.” For all the people were weeping as they heard the words of the Law.

  18. Esther 8:3 וַתֵּ֣בְךְּ

    And once again, Esther addressed the king. She fell at his feet weeping and begged him to revoke the evil scheme of Haman the Agagite, which he had devised against the Jews.

  19. Job 2:12 וַיִּבְכּ֑וּ

    When they lifted up their eyes from afar, they could barely recognize Job. They began to weep aloud, and each man tore his robe and threw dust in the air over his head.

  20. Job 27:15 תִבְכֶּֽינָה׃

    His survivors will be buried by the plague, and their widows will not weep for them.

  21. Job 30:25 בָ֭כִיתִי

    Have I not wept for those in trouble? Has my soul not grieved for the needy?

  22. Job 30:31 בֹּכִֽים׃

    My harp is tuned to mourning and my flute to the sound of weeping.

  23. Job 31:38 יִבְכָּיֽוּן׃

    if my land cries out against me and its furrows weep together,

  24. Psalms 69:10 וָאֶבְכֶּ֣ה

    I wept and fasted, but it brought me reproach.

  25. Psalms 78:64 תִבְכֶּֽינָה׃

    His priests fell by the sword, but their widows could not lament.

  26. Psalms 126:6 וּבָכֹה֮

    He who goes out weeping, bearing a trail of seed, will surely return with shouts of joy, carrying sheaves of grain.

  27. Psalms 137:1 בָּכִ֑ינוּ

    By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion.

  28. Ecclesiastes 3:4 לִבְכּוֹת֙

    a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance,

  29. Isaiah 16:9 אֶבְכֶּ֞ה

    So I weep with Jazer for the vines of Sibmah; I drench Heshbon and Elealeh with my tears. Triumphant shouts have fallen silent over your summer fruit and your harvest.

  30. Isaiah 30:19 בָּכ֣וֹתִבְכֶּ֗ה

    O people in Zion who dwell in Jerusalem, you will weep no more. He will surely be gracious when you cry for help; when He hears, He will answer you.

  31. Isaiah 33:7 יִבְכָּיֽוּן׃

    Behold, their valiant ones cry aloud in the streets; the envoys of peace weep bitterly.

  32. Isaiah 38:3 וַיֵּ֥בְךְּ

    saying, “Please, O LORD, remember how I have walked before You faithfully and with wholehearted devotion; I have done what was good in Your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.

  33. Jeremiah 9:1 וְאֶבְכֶּה֙

    Oh, that my head were a spring of water, and my eyes a fountain of tears! I would weep day and night over the slain daughter of my people.

  34. Jeremiah 13:17 תִּבְכֶּֽה־

    But if you do not listen, I will weep in secret because of your pride. My eyes will overflow with tears, because the LORD’s flock has been taken captive.

  35. Jeremiah 22:10 תִּבְכּ֣וּבְּכ֤וּבָכוֹ֙

    Do not weep for the dead king; do not mourn his loss. Weep bitterly for the one who is exiled, for he will never return to see his native land.

  36. Jeremiah 31:15 מְבַכָּ֣ה

    This is what the LORD says: “A voice is heard in Ramah, mourning and great weeping, Rachel weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more.”

  37. Jeremiah 41:6 וּבֹכֶ֑ה

    And Ishmael son of Nethaniah went out from Mizpah to meet them, weeping as he went. When Ishmael encountered the men, he said, “Come to Gedaliah son of Ahikam.”

  38. Jeremiah 48:32 אֶבְכֶּה־

    I will weep for you, O vine of Sibmah, more than I weep for Jazer. Your tendrils have extended to the sea; they reach even to Jazer. The destroyer has descended on your summer fruit and grape harvest.

  39. Jeremiah 50:4 וּבָכוֹ֙

    “In those days and at that time, declares the LORD, the children of Israel and the children of Judah will come together, weeping as they come, and will seek the LORD their God.

  40. Lamentations 1:2 בָּכ֨וֹתִבְכֶּ֜ה

    She weeps aloud in the night, with tears upon her cheeks. Among all her lovers there is no one to comfort her. All her friends have betrayed her; they have become her enemies.

  41. Lamentations 1:16 בוֹכִיָּ֗ה

    For these things I weep; my eyes flow with tears. For there is no one nearby to comfort me, no one to revive my soul. My children are destitute because the enemy has prevailed.

  42. Ezekiel 8:14 מְבַכּ֖וֹת

    Then He brought me to the entrance of the north gate of the house of the LORD, and I saw women sitting there, weeping for Tammuz.

  43. Ezekiel 24:16 תִבְכֶּ֔ה

    “Son of man, behold, I am about to take away the desire of your eyes with a fatal blow. But you must not mourn or weep or let your tears flow.

  44. Ezekiel 24:23 תִבְכּ֑וּ

    Your turbans will remain on your heads and your sandals on your feet. You will not mourn or weep, but you will waste away because of your sins, and you will groan among yourselves.

  45. Ezekiel 27:31 וּבָכ֥וּ

    They will shave their heads for you and wrap themselves in sackcloth. They will weep over you with anguish of soul and bitter mourning.

  46. Hosea 12:4 בָּכָ֖ה

    Yes, he struggled with the angel and prevailed; he wept and sought His favor; he found Him at Bethel and spoke with Him there —

  47. Joel 1:5 וּבְכ֔וּ

    Wake up, you drunkards, and weep; wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine, for it has been cut off from your mouth.

  48. Joel 2:17 יִבְכּוּ֙

    Let the priests who minister before the LORD weep between the portico and the altar, saying, “Spare Your people, O LORD, and do not make Your heritage a reproach, an object of scorn among the nations. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’”

  49. Micah 1:10 בָּכ֖וֹתִּבְכּ֑וּ

    Do not tell it in Gath; do not weep at all. Roll in the dust in Beth-leaphrah.

  50. Zechariah 7:3 הַֽאֶבְכֶּה֙

    by asking the priests of the house of the LORD of Hosts, as well as the prophets, “Should I weep and fast in the fifth month, as I have done these many years?”

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