Scourging
בִּקֹּ֫רֶתStrong’s H1244biqqoret (biq-qo-ret)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Biqqoret is the Hebrew word usually translated “compensation”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“And whosoever lieth carnally with a woman, that is a bondmaid, betrothed to an husband, and not at all redeemed, nor freedom given her; she shall be scourged; they shall not be put to death, because she was not free.”
Meaning
- Punishment (after judicial enquiry), compensation
How it's translated
- compensation 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
בִּקֹּ֫רֶת biqqoret · scourging
punishment (after judicial enquiry), compensation
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “scourging” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SCOURG'ING, participle present
tense Whipping; lashing with severity; punishing or afflicting severely.
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.