To weep
בָּכָהStrong’s H1058bakhah (ba-khah)
Appears in 100 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Bakhah is the Hebrew word usually translated “wept”, “weeping” and “weep”. It appears in 100 verses of the Old Testament.
“And to speak unto the priests which were in the house of the LORD of hosts, and to the prophets, saying, Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done these so many years?”
Meaning
- To weep, bewail, cry, shed tears(Qal) · (Piel) participle
How it's translated
- and he wept 16
- and they wept 15
- weeping 10
- and she wept 6
- and weeping 5
- to weep 4
- and they wept for 4
- and you wept 4
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 14
- 2 Samuel 12
- Numbers 8
- Judges 8
- 1 Samuel 8
- Jeremiah 7
25 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 21:16And she went, and sat her down over against him a good way off, as it were a bow shot: for she said, Let me not see the death of the child. And she sat over against him, and lift up her voice, and wept.
- Genesis 23:2And Sarah died in Kirjatharba; the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan: and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.
- Genesis 27:38And Esau said unto his father, Hast thou but one blessing, my father? bless me, even me also, O my father. And Esau lifted up his voice, and wept.
- Genesis 29:11And Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept.
- Genesis 33:4And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him: and they wept.
- Genesis 37:35And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted; and he said, For I will go down into the grave unto my son mourning. Thus his father wept for him.
All 100 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
בָּכָה bakhah · to weep
1) to weep, bewail, cry, shed tears 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to weep (in grief, humiliation, or joy) 1a2) to weep bitterly (with cognate acc.) 1a3) to weep upon (embrace and weep) 1a4) to bewail 1b) (Piel) participle 1b1) lamenting 1b2) bewailing
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “weep” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
WEEP, verb intransitive
preterit tense and participle passive wept. Weeped, I believe is never used. [See Whoop. The primary sense is to cry out.]
- To express sorrow, grief or anguish by outcry.“They all wept sore, and fell on Pauls neck, and kissed him” Acts 20:37
- To shed tears from any passion.
- To lament; to complain. Numbers 11:10
All definitions and other forms of “weep”
WEEP, verb transitive
- To lament; to bewail; to bemoan.
- To shed moisture; as, to weep tears of joy.
- To drop; as the weeping amber.
- To abound with wet; as weeping grounds.
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.