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title: בּוּקָה — emptiness · The Tanakh dictionary
description: בּוּקָה (950), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: emptiness. BDB 1906: n.f. emptiness. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# בּוּקָה

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«בּוּקָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **emptiness** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 950 · **BDB:** בּוּקָה

### Glosses

emptiness (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

emptiness [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/950/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. emptiness [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/950/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. emptiness, Na 2:11 וּמְבֻלָּקָה בּוּקה וּמְבוּקָה emptiness and void and waste.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 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, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «בּוּקָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/950/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Nahum 2:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/NAM.2.11/)

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בּוּקָ֥ה וּמְבוּקָ֖ה וּמְבֻלָּקָ֑ה וְלֵ֨ב נָמֵ֜ס וּפִ֣ק בִּרְכַּ֗יִם וְחַלְחָלָה֙ בְּכָל־מָתְנַ֔יִם וּפְנֵ֥י כֻלָּ֖ם קִבְּצ֥וּ פָארֽוּר׃

*Word for word:* emptiness and emptiness and devastation and a.heart melting and tottering of.knees and anguish \[is\].in all loins and the.faces all.of.them their they.have.gathered a.glow

*JPS 1917:* She is empty, and void, and waste; and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and convulsion is in all loins, and the faces of them all have gathered blackness.

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