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title: בׇּצְקַת — Bozcath · The Tanakh dictionary
description: בׇּצְקַת (1218), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: Bozcath. BDB 1906: n.pr.loc. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# בׇּצְקַת

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«בׇּצְקַת» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Bozcath** — 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:** 1218 · **BDB:** בָּצְקַת

### Glosses

Bozkath (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Bozcath [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1218/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1218/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. (? cf. Arabic بَصْقَةٌ an elevated region covered with volcanic stones) city of Judah toward Philistines, בָּצְקַת Jos 15:39; בָּצְקַ֑ת 2 K 22:1 (home of Josiah’s mother).

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Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «בׇּצְקַת» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1218/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Joshua 15:39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.15.39/)

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לָכִ֥ישׁ וּבָצְקַ֖ת וְעֶגְלֽוֹן׃

*Word for word:* Lachish and Bozkath and Eglon

*JPS 1917:* Lachish, and Bozkath, and Eglon;

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[2 Kings 22:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.22.1/)

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בֶּן־שְׁמֹנֶ֤ה שָׁנָה֙ יֹאשִׁיָּ֣הוּ בְמָלְכ֔וֹ וּשְׁלֹשִׁ֤ים וְאַחַת֙ שָׁנָ֔ה מָלַ֖ךְ בִּירוּשָׁלִָ֑ם וְשֵׁ֣ם אִמּ֔וֹ יְדִידָ֥ה בַת־עֲדָ֖יָה מִבָּצְקַֽת׃

*Word for word:* \[was\].a.son of.eight year\[s\] Josiah when he became.king and thirty and one year\[s\] he.reigned in Jerusalem and the.name his.mother his \[was\].Jedidah the.daughter of.Adaiah from Bozkath

*JPS 1917:* Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign; and he reigned thirty and one years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Jedidah the daughter of Adaiah of Bozkath.

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