Weeping
בְּכִיStrong’s H1065bekhi (be-khi)
Appears in 29 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Bekhi is the Hebrew word usually translated “weeping”, “weeping of” and “from weeping”. It appears in 29 verses of the Old Testament.
“And he wept aloud: and the Egyptians and the house of Pharaoh heard.”
Meaning
- A weeping, weeping
How it's translated
- weeping 9
- with weeping 5
- weeping of 4
- in weeping 2
- from weeping 2
- for weeping 2
- a weeping 1
- and weeping 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 8
- Jeremiah 7
- Psalms 3
- Job 2
- Genesis 1
- Deuteronomy 1
13 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Deuteronomy 34:8And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days: so the days of weeping and mourning for Moses were ended.
- Judges 21:2And the people came to the house of God, and abode there till even before God, and lifted up their voices, and wept sore;
- 2 Samuel 13:36And it came to pass, as soon as he had made an end of speaking, that, behold, the king’s sons came, and lifted up their voice and wept: and the king also and all his servants wept very sore.
- 2 Kings 20:3I beseech thee, O LORD, remember now how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore.
- Ezra 3:13So that the people could not discern the noise of the shout of joy from the noise of the weeping of the people: for the people shouted with a loud shout, and the noise was heard afar off.
- Esther 4:3And in every province, whithersoever the king’s commandment and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.
Hebrew dictionary
בְּכִי bekhi · weeping
a weeping, weeping
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “weeping” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
WEEPING, participle present
tense Lamenting; shedding tears.
All definitions and other forms of “weeping”
WEEPING, noun
Lamentation.
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.