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title: בָּעַט — kick · The Tanakh dictionary
description: בָּעַט (1163), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: kick. BDB 1906: vb. kick. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# בָּעַט

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«בָּעַט» in the Tanakh dictionary: **kick** — 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:** 2 times · **Key:** 1163 · **BDB:** בָּעַט

### Glosses

do.you.kick (1); he.kicked (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

kick [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1163/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. kick [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1163/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. kick (so NH, Aramaic בְּעַט, ܒܥܰܛ )— Impf. וַיִּבְעַט Dt 32:15; 2 mpl. תִּבְעֲטוּ 1 Sa 2:29;—kick (only fig. of refractory Israel) Dt 32:15 (abs.); kick at (c. בְּ) 1 S 2:29.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 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 «בָּעַט» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1163/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Deuteronomy 32:15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.32.15/)

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וַיִּשְׁמַ֤ן יְשֻׁרוּן֙ וַיִּבְעָ֔ט שָׁמַ֖נְתָּ עָבִ֣יתָ כָּשִׂ֑יתָ וַיִּטֹּשׁ֙ אֱל֣וֹהַ עָשָׂ֔הוּ וַיְנַבֵּ֖ל צ֥וּר יְשֻׁעָתֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* and he.became.fat Jeshurun and he.kicked you.have.become.fat you.have.become.bloated you.have.become.gorged and he.abandoned God \[who\].he made.him and he.treated.with.contempt the.rock his.salvation his

*JPS 1917:* But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked — thou didst wax fat, thou didst grow thick, thou didst become gross — and he forsook God who made him, and contemned the Rock of his salvation.

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[1 Samuel 2:29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.2.29/)

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לָ֣מָּה תִבְעֲט֗וּ בְּזִבְחִי֙ וּבְמִנְחָתִ֔י אֲשֶׁ֥ר צִוִּ֖יתִי מָע֑וֹן וַתְּכַבֵּ֤ד אֶת־בָּנֶ֙יךָ֙ מִמֶּ֔נִּי לְהַבְרִֽיאֲכֶ֗ם מֵרֵאשִׁ֛ית כָּל־מִנְחַ֥ת יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל לְעַמִּֽי׃

*Word for word:* why? do.you.kick at sacrifice my and at offering my which I.commanded a.dwelling.place and do.you.honor (et) sons your more than.me by making yourselves.fat from the.choicest of.every (the).offering of.Israel of people my

*JPS 1917:* Wherefore kick ye at My sacrifice and at Mine offering, which I have commanded in My habitation; and honourest thy sons above Me, to make yourselves fat with the chiefest of all the offerings of Israel My people?

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