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title: בְּכִי — weeping · The Tanakh dictionary
description: בְּכִי (1065), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 30 times: weeping. BDB 1906: n.m. weeping. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# בְּכִי

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«בְּכִי» in the Tanakh dictionary: **weeping** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 30 times · **Key:** 1065 · **BDB:** בְּכִי

### Glosses

weeping (22); of.the.weeping (2); the.weeping (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

weeping [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1065/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. weeping [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1065/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Ju 21:2 weeping—בְּכִי Ju 21:2 + 20 times (also cstr. Dt 34:8, etc.); בִּבְכִ֑י Gn 45:2; בֶּ֑כִי Is 15:2 + 6 times; sf. בִּכְי֑י ψ 6:9;—weeping ψ 30:6 Is 15:2, 5; as acc. cogn. (c. בכה) Ju 21:2; 2 S 13:36; 2 K 20:3 = Is 38:3 cf. Is 16:9 (בבכי) Je 48:32 (מבכי); audible קול ב׳ ψ 6:9 Is 65:19; Ezr 3:13 cf. Je 3:21; 31:16; Is 15:3 (ייליל יֹרֵד בבכי v. Je 9:17); so also Gn 45:2 (ויתן את־קלו בב׳) \& Je 48:5 (בבכי יעלה בכי i.e. the sound of it shall ascend)—but text here suspicious, cf. Is 15:5; as disfiguring Jb 16:16; ‖ words of mourning Est 4:3 (אֵבֶל, צוֹם, מִסְפֵּד), Je 31:9 (תחנונים cf. 3:21), 9:10; 31:15 (נהי), cf. בכי אבל משׁה Dt 34:8 \& Di ad loc.; contrition (humiliation) Jo 2:12 (צום, מִסְפֵּד), Is 22:12 (מספד, קרחה, חגור שׂק), cf. Mal 2:13 (אנקה, דמעה); of bitter weeping Is 22:4 אֲמָרֵר בַּבֶּ֑כִי, cf. Je 31:15 (\& Is 33:7); בכי יעזר Is 16:9; Je 48:32 i.e. Yaʿzer in Moab, cf. יעזר n.pr.; ψ 102:10 (שׁקוי בב׳ מסכתי cf. 42:4; 80:6 \& Bab. dîmtu maštîtî, tears (were) my drink ZimBP 34, 42). Trop., of trickling streams (נהרות) in mines—hindrance to miners Jb 28:11.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 28 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «בְּכִי» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1065/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Job 28:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.28.11/)

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מִ֭בְּכִי נְהָר֣וֹת חִבֵּ֑שׁ וְ֝תַעֲלֻמָ֗הּיֹ֣צִא אֽוֹר׃פ

*Word for word:* from weeping rivers he.restrains and what.is.hidden he.brings.out light

*JPS 1917:* He bindeth the streams that they trickle not; and the thing that is hid bringeth he forth to light.

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[Job 16:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.16.16/)

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פָּנַ֣י חֳ֭מַרְמְרוּ מִנִּי־בֶ֑כִי וְעַ֖ל עַפְעַפַּ֣י צַלְמָֽוֶת׃

*Word for word:* face my they.are.reddened from weeping and.\[is\] on eyelids my deep.darkness

*JPS 1917:* My face is reddened with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;

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