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title: בּוּךְ — perplex · The Tanakh dictionary
description: בּוּךְ (943), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 3 times: perplex. BDB 1906: vb. perplex, confuse. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# בּוּךְ

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«בּוּךְ» in the Tanakh dictionary: **perplex** — 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:** 943 · **BDB:** בּוּךְ

### Glosses

\[are\].wandering.in.confusion (1); it.was.in.confusion (1); they.have.wandered.in.confusion (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

perplex [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/943/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. perplex, confuse [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/943/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. perplex, confuse (? Arabic بَاكَ stir up (water of spring) the be disturbed, confused; cf. Assyrian bâku, lead captive, orig. lead astray? COT Ezr 4:2)—only Pf. 3 fs. נָב֫וֹכָה Est 3:15; 3 mpl. נָבֹ֫כוּ Jo 1:18, Pt. pl. נְבֻכִים Ex 14:3;—be confused, in confusion (of a city) Est 3:15; = wander aimlessly (of Isr.) Ex 14:3; so of cattle Jo 1:18 (Merx proposes בָּכוּ, after 𝔊 ἔκλαυσαν, but בכה not elsewhere of cattle).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 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, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «בּוּךְ» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/943/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Exodus 14:3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.14.3/)

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וְאָמַ֤ר פַּרְעֹה֙ לִבְנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל נְבֻכִ֥ים הֵ֖ם בָּאָ֑רֶץ סָגַ֥ר עֲלֵיהֶ֖ם הַמִּדְבָּֽר׃

*Word for word:* and he.will.say Pharaoh of the.people of.Israel \[are\].wandering.in.confusion they in the land it.has.shut on them the wilderness

*JPS 1917:* And Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel: They are entangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut them in.

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[Joel 1:18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOL.1.18/)

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מַה־נֶּאֶנְחָ֣ה בְהֵמָ֗ה נָבֹ֙כוּ֙ עֶדְרֵ֣י בָקָ֔ר כִּ֛י אֵ֥ין מִרְעֶ֖ה לָהֶ֑ם גַּם־עֶדְרֵ֥י הַצֹּ֖אן נֶאְשָֽׁמוּ׃

*Word for word:* how! it.has.groaned \[the\].livestock they.have.wandered.in.confusion \[the\].herds of.cattle (dm) there.\[is\].not pasture for them also the.flocks of.(the) sheep they.have.suffered

*JPS 1917:* How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.

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