Emptiness
בּוּקָהStrong’s H0950buqah (bu-qah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Buqah is the Hebrew word usually translated “emptiness”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and much pain is in all loins, and the faces of them all gather blackness.”
Meaning
- Emptiness
How it's translated
- emptiness 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Nahum 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
בּוּקָה buqah · emptiness
emptiness
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “emptiness” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
EMP'TINESS, noun
[from empty.]
A state of being empty; a state of containing nothing except air; destitution; absence of matter; as the emptiness of a vessel.
- Void space; vacuity; vacuum.
- Want of solidity or substance; as the emptiness of light and shade.
- Unsatisfactoriness; inability to satisfy desire; as the emptiness of earthly things.
- Vacuity of head; want of intellect or knowledge.
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.