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title: בְּקִיעַ — fissure · The Tanakh dictionary
description: בְּקִיעַ (1233), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: fissure. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# בְּקִיעַ

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«בְּקִיעַ» in the Tanakh dictionary: **fissure** — 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:** 1233 · **BDB:** בְּקִיעַ

### Glosses

rubble(s) (1); the.breaches (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

fissure [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1233/#m1)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «בְּקִיעַ» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1233/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Isaiah 22:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.22.9/)

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וְאֵ֨ת בְּקִיעֵ֧י עִיר־דָּוִ֛ד רְאִיתֶ֖ם כִּי־רָ֑בּוּ וַֽתְּקַבְּצ֔וּ אֶת־מֵ֥י הַבְּרֵכָ֖ה הַתַּחְתּוֹנָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and (et) the.breaches of.the.city of.David you.saw (dm).that they.were.many and you.gathered (et) the.waters of the.pool (the) lower

*JPS 1917:* And ye saw the breaches of the city of David, that they were many; and ye gathered together the waters of the lower pool.

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[Amos 6:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/AMO.6.11/)

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כִּֽי־הִנֵּ֤ה יְהוָה֙ מְצַוֶּ֔ה וְהִכָּ֛ה הַבַּ֥יִת הַגָּד֖וֹל רְסִיסִ֑ים וְהַבַּ֥יִת הַקָּטֹ֖ן בְּקִעִֽים׃

*Word for word:* (dm) here! Yahweh \[is\].commanding and someone.will.strike the house (the) great fragments and the house (the) small rubble(s)

*JPS 1917:* For, behold, the LORD commandeth, and the great house shall be smitten into splinters, and the little house into chips.

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