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title: בֶּזֶק — Bezek · The Tanakh dictionary
description: בֶּזֶק (966), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 3 times: Bezek. BDB 1906: n.pr.loc. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# בֶּזֶק

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«בֶּזֶק» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Bezek** — 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:** 966 · **BDB:** בֶּ֫זֶק

### Glosses

Bezek (3)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Bezek [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/966/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/966/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. 1 S 11:8 (בְּבָ֑זֶק) rendezvous of Israel under Saul and Sam.; Ju 1:4, 5 home of Adoni-bezek; on loc. cf. Euseb. LagOnom. 105, 2nd ed. 139; see also Stu. error in Ju 1:4, 5 (v. GFM). Ju 1:4; 17th (mile-)stone from Neapolis toward Scythopolis; mod. Ḫirbet Ibzîḳ, 14 Eng. m. from Nâblus, Surveyii. 231. NesAJSL xiii (1897), 176 conj. meaning gravel, cf. mod. Ramle = sand.

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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 (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 «בֶּזֶק» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/966/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[1 Samuel 11:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.11.8/)

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וַֽיִּפְקְדֵ֖ם בְּבָ֑זֶק וַיִּהְי֤וּ בְנֵֽי־יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ שְׁלֹ֣שׁ מֵא֣וֹת אֶ֔לֶף וְאִ֥ישׁ יְהוּדָ֖ה שְׁלֹשִׁ֥ים אָֽלֶף׃

*Word for word:* and he mustered.them at Bezek and they.were the.people of.Israel three hundred(s) thousand and the.man of.Judah \[was\].thirty thousand

*JPS 1917:* And he numbered them in Bezek; and the children of Israel were three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty thousand.

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[Judges 1:5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.1.5/)

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וַֽ֠יִּמְצְאוּ אֶת־אֲדֹנִ֥י בֶ֙זֶק֙ אֲדֹנִ֥י בֶ֙זֶק֙ בְּבֶ֔זֶק וַיִּֽלָּחֲמ֖וּ בּ֑וֹ וַיַּכּ֕וּ אֶת־הַֽכְּנַעֲנִ֖י וְאֶת־הַפְּרִזִּֽי׃

*Word for word:* and they.found (et) Adoni-Bezek Adoni-Bezek at Bezek and they.fought against him and they.defeated (et) the Canaanite\[s\] and (et) the Perizzite\[s\]

*JPS 1917:* And they found Adoni-bezek in Bezek; and they fought against him, and they smote the Canaanites and the Perizzites.

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