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title: בָּזָק — lightning flash · The Tanakh dictionary
description: בָּזָק (965), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: lightning flash. BDB 1906: lightning flash. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# בָּזָק

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«בָּזָק» in the Tanakh dictionary: **lightning flash** — 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:** 965 · **BDB:** בָּזָק

### Glosses

lightning (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

lightning flash [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/965/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

lightning flash [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/965/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] lightning flash? Ez 1:14 Hi Co del.; verse om. in old MSS. of 𝔊; sense uncertain, possibly error for ברק.

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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, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «בָּזָק» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/965/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Ezekiel 1:14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.1.14/)

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וְהַחַיּ֖וֹת רָצ֣וֹא וָשׁ֑וֹב כְּמַרְאֵ֖ה הַבָּזָֽק׃

*Word for word:* and the.living creatures they.were.running and they.were.returning like the.appearance of.(the) lightning

*JPS 1917:* And the living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning.

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