To break up/open
בָּקַעStrong’s H1234baqa (ba-qa)
Appears in 50 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Baqa is the Hebrew word usually translated “were split open”, “it was split open” and “split open”. It appears in 50 verses of the Old Testament.
“And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.”
Meaning
- To split, cleave, break open, divide, break through, rip up, break up, tear(Qal) · (Niphal) · (Piel) · (Pual) · (Hiphil) · (Hophal) to be broken into · (Hithpael) to burst (themselves) open, cleave asunder
How it's translated
- they were split open 3
- and it was split open 2
- and he split open 2
- and they broke through 2
- and it was broken into 2
- you split open 2
- he split open 2
- and he cut 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 7
- 2 Kings 5
- Ezekiel 5
- Psalms 4
- 2 Chronicles 3
- Job 3
24 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 7:11In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
- Genesis 22:3And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him.
- Exodus 14:16But lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thine hand over the sea, and divide it: and the children of Israel shall go on dry ground through the midst of the sea.
- Exodus 14:21And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
- Numbers 16:31And it came to pass, as he had made an end of speaking all these words, that the ground clave asunder that was under them:
- Joshua 9:4They did work wilily, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks upon their asses, and wine bottles, old, and rent, and bound up;
All 50 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
בָּקַע baqa · to break up/open
1) to split, cleave, break open, divide, break through, rip up, break up, tear 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to cleave, cleave open 1a2) to break through, break into 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to be cleft, be rent open, be split open 1b2) to be broken into 1c) (Piel) 1c1) to cleave, cut to pieces, rend open 1c2) to break through, break down 1d) (Pual) 1d1) to be ripped open, be torn open 1d2) to be rent 1d3) to be broken into 1e) (Hiphil) 1e1) to break into 1e2) to break through 1f) (Hophal) to be broken into 1g) (Hithpael) to burst (themselves) open, cleave asunder
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “cut” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CUT, verb transitive
preterit tense and preposition cut [Latin, to thrust, to drive, to strike.]
- To separate the parts of any body by an edged instrument, either by striking, as with an ax, or by sawing or rubbing; to make a gash, incision or notch, which separates the external part of a body, as to cut the flesh.
- To hew.“Thy servants can skill to cut timber” 2 Chronicles 2:8
- To carve, as meat; to carve or engrave in sculpture.
- To divide; to cleave, by passing through; as, a ship cuts the briny deep.
All definitions and other forms of “cut”
- To penetrate; to pierce; to affect deeply; as, a sarcasm cuts to the quick.
- To divide, as a pack of cards; as, to cut and shuffle.
- To intersect; to cross.
- To castrate.“He hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked” Psalms 129:4“Ye shall cut down their groves” Exodus 34:13
- To separate one part from another; as, to cut off a finger, or an arm; to cut off the right hand figure; to cut off a letter or syllable.
- To destroy; to extirpate; to put to death untimely.“Jezebel cut off the prophets of the Lord” 1 Kings 18:4
- To separate; to remove to a distance, or to prevent all intercourse.
- To interrupt; as, to cut off communication.
- To separate; to remove; to take away; as, to cut off ten years of life.
- To intercept; to hinder from return, or union.
- To end; to finish; as, to cut off all controversy.
- To prevent or preclude; as, to cut off all occasion of blame.
- To preclude or shut out.
- To stop, interrupt or silence.
- To hasten; to run or ride with the utmost speed; a vulgar phrase.
- To urge or drive in striking; to quicken blows; to hasten.
- To remove a part by cutting or carving; as, to cut out a piece from a board; to cut out the tongue.
- To shape or form by cutting; as, to cut out a garment; to cut out an image; to cut out a wood into walks.
- To scheme; to contrive; to prepare; as, to cut out word for another day.
- To shape; to adapt.
- To debar. [Not common.]
- To take the preference or precedence of; as, to cut out a prior judgment creditor.
- To step in and take the place of, as in courting and dancing. [A vulgar phrase.]
- To interfere as a horse, when the shoe of one foot beats off the skin of the pastern joint of another.
- To hinder from proceeding by sudden interruption.
- To shorten; to abridge; as, to cut short of provisions or pay; to cut the matter short.
- To cut in pieces; as, to cut up beef.
- To eradicate; to cut off; as, to cut up shrubs.
CUT, verb intransitive
- To pass into or through and sever; to enter and divide the parts; as, an instrument cuts well.
- To be severed by a cutting instrument; as, this fruit cuts easy or smooth.
- To divide by passing.
- To perform a surgical operation by cutting, especially in lithotomy.
- To interfere, as a horse.
CUT, participle passive
Gashed; divided; hewn; carved; intersected; pierced; deeply affected; castrated.
CUT, noun
- The action of an edged instrument; a stroke or blow, as with an ax or sword.
- A cleft; a gash; a notch; a wound; the opening made by an edged instrument, distinguished by its length from that made by perforation with a pointed instrument.
- A stroke or blow with a whip.
- A channel made by cutting or digging; a ditch; a groove; a furrow; a canal.
- A part cut off from the rest; as a good cut of beef; a cut of timber.
- A lot made by cutting a stick; as, to draw cuts.
- A near passage, by which an angle is cut off; a shorter cut
- A picture cut or cared on wood or metal, and impressed from it.
- The stamp on which a picture is carved, and by which it is impressed.
- The act of dividing a pack of cards.
- Manner in which a thing is cut; form; shape; fashion; as the cut of a garment; the cut of his beard.
- A fool; a cully; a gelding. [Not in use.]
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.