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title: בַּקְבֻּק — flask · The Tanakh dictionary
description: בַּקְבֻּק (1228), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 3 times: flask. BDB 1906: flask. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# בַּקְבֻּק

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«בַּקְבֻּק» in the Tanakh dictionary: **flask** — 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:** 3 times · **Key:** 1228 · **BDB:** בַּקְבֻק

### Glosses

a.jar (2); jar (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

flask [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1228/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

flask [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1228/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] flask (from gurgling sound of emptying, cf. Arabic بَقْبَقَةٌ gurgling sound; also Syriac ܒܰܓܒܽܘܓܳܐ, cantharus etc.)—abs. בַּקְבֻּק Je 19:10; cstr. id. 1 K 14:3 Je 19:1.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword without dagesh, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «בַּקְבֻּק» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1228/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Jeremiah 19:10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.19.10/)

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וְשָׁבַרְתָּ֖ הַבַּקְבֻּ֑ק לְעֵינֵי֙ הָֽאֲנָשִׁ֔ים הַהֹלְכִ֖ים אוֹתָֽךְ׃

*Word for word:* and you.will.break the jar to the.eyes of the.men \[who\] go with you

*JPS 1917:* Then shalt thou break the bottle in the sight of the men that go with thee,

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[Jeremiah 19:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.19.1/)

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כֹּ֚ה אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֔ה הָל֛וֹךְ וְקָנִ֥יתָ בַקְבֻּ֖ק יוֹצֵ֣ר חָ֑רֶשׂ וּמִזִּקְנֵ֣י הָעָ֔ם וּמִזִּקְנֵ֖י הַכֹּהֲנִֽים׃

*Word for word:* thus he.said Yahweh go and you.will.buy a.jar of.a.potter earthenware and some of.the.elders of the.people and some of.the.elders of the.priests

*JPS 1917:* Thus said the LORD: Go, and get a potter's earthen bottle, and take of the elders of the people, and of the elders of the priests;

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