Breach
בֶּ֫דֶקStrong’s H0919bedeq (be-deq)
Appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Bedeq is the Hebrew word usually translated “damage of”, “leaks your” and “damage”. It appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament.
“Let the priests take it to them, every man of his acquaintance: and let them repair the breaches of the house, wheresoever any breach shall be found.”
Meaning
- Fissure, rent, breach, leak (in a building)
How it's translated
- damage of 6
- leaks your 2
- damage 1
- for damage of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Kings 6
- Ezekiel 2
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 2 Kings 12:6But it was so, that in the three and twentieth year of king Jehoash the priests had not repaired the breaches of the house.
- 2 Kings 12:7Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and the other priests, and said unto them, Why repair ye not the breaches of the house? now therefore receive no more money of your acquaintance, but deliver it for the breaches of the house.
- 2 Kings 12:8And the priests consented to receive no more money of the people, neither to repair the breaches of the house.
- 2 Kings 12:12And to masons, and hewers of stone, and to buy timber and hewed stone to repair the breaches of the house of the LORD, and for all that was laid out for the house to repair it.
- 2 Kings 22:5And let them deliver it into the hand of the doers of the work, that have the oversight of the house of the LORD: and let them give it to the doers of the work which is in the house of the LORD, to repair the breaches of the house,
- Ezekiel 27:9The ancients of Gebal and the wise men thereof were in thee thy calkers: all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in thee to occupy thy merchandise.
Hebrew dictionary
בֶּ֫דֶק bedeq · breach
fissure, rent, breach, leak (in a building)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “breach” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BREACH, noun
- The act of breaking; or state of being broken; a rupture; a break; a gap; the space between the severed parts of a solid body parted by violence; as a breach in a garment, or in a wall.
- The violation of a law; the violation or non-fulfillment of a contract; the non-performance of a moral duty; non-performance of duty being a breach of obligation, as well as a positive transgression or violation.
- An opening in a coast. [Not usual.]
- Separation between friends by means of enmity; difference; quarrel.
All definitions and other forms of “breach”
- Infraction; injury; invasion; as a breach upon kingly power.
- Bereavement; loss of a friend and its consequent affliction.
- A violation of the public peace, as by a riot, affray, or any tumult which is contrary to law, and destructive to the public tranquillity, is called a breach of the peace.
BREACH, verb transitive
To make a breach or opening.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.