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title: בֶּדֶק — fissure · The Tanakh dictionary
description: בֶּדֶק (919), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 10 times: fissure. BDB 1906: n.m. fissure, rent, breach. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# בֶּדֶק

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«בֶּדֶק» 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:** 10 times · **Key:** 919 · **BDB:** בֶּ֫דֶק

### Glosses

the.damage (7); your.leak\[s\] (2); damage (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

fissure [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/919/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. fissure, rent, breach [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/919/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. 2 K 12:6 fissure, rent, breach (Aramaic בִּידְקָא, ܒܶܕܩܳܐ (Nasar.))—בּ׳ abs. 2 K 12:6; cstr. ib. + 6 times; sf. בִּדְקֵךְ Ez 27:9, 27;—in as building; temple ב׳ הַבַּיִת 2 K 12:6, 7, 8(×2), 9; 22:5, cf. 12:13 (ב׳ בֵּית י׳); v 6 abs.; law. c. חִזֵּק repair; cf. מַחֲזִיקֵי ב׳ repairers of thy fissures Ez 27:9, 27 (of Tyre).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 8 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 «בֶּדֶק» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/919/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[2 Kings 12:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.12.7/)

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וַיְהִ֗י בִּשְׁנַ֨ת עֶשְׂרִ֧ים וְשָׁלֹ֛שׁ שָׁנָ֖ה לַמֶּ֣לֶךְ יְהוֹאָ֑שׁ לֹֽא־חִזְּק֥וּ הַכֹּהֲנִ֖ים אֶת־בֶּ֥דֶק הַבָּֽיִת׃

*Word for word:* and it.was in year twenty and three year of the king Jehoash not they.had.repaired the priests (et) the.damage of the.house

*JPS 1917:* But it was so, that in the three and twentieth year of king Jehoash the priests had not repaired the breaches of the house.

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[2 Kings 12:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.12.9/)

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וַיֵּאֹ֖תוּ הַכֹּֽהֲנִ֑ים לְבִלְתִּ֤י קְחַת־כֶּ֙סֶף֙ מֵאֵ֣ת הָעָ֔ם וּלְבִלְתִּ֥י חַזֵּ֖ק אֶת־בֶּ֥דֶק הַבָּֽיִת׃

*Word for word:* and they.agreed the priests to not to.take money from with the people and to not to.repair (et) the.damage of the.house

*JPS 1917:* And the priests consented that they should take no longer money from the people, neither repair the breaches of the house.

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