King James Bible
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STRONGS NUMBER H1065
Transliteration: beki
Phonetic Spelling: (bek-ee')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: a weeping
Meaning: a weeping, a dripping
Word Summary
beki: a weeping
Original Word: בְּכִיTransliteration: beki
Phonetic Spelling: (bek-ee')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: a weeping
Meaning: a weeping, a dripping
Strong's Concordance
overflowing, sore, continual weeping, wept From bakah; a weeping; by analogy, a dripping -- overflowing, X sore, (continual) weeping, wept.
see HEBREW bakah
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H1065. beki
בְּכִי noun masculineJudges 21:2 weeping — בְּכִי 21:2 20t. (also construct Deuteronomy 34:8, etc.); בִּבְכִ֑י Genesis 45:2; בֶּ֑כִי Isaiah 15:2 6t.; suffix בִּכְִיי֑ Psalm 6:9; — weeping 30:6; Isaiah 15:2, 5; as accusative of congnate meaning with verb (with בכה) Judges 21:2; 2 Samuel 13:36; 2 Kings 20:3 = Isaiah 38:3 compare 16:9 (בבכי) Jeremiah 48:32 (מבכי); audible ב ׳קול Psalm 6:9; Isaiah 65:19; Ezra 3:13 compare Jeremiah 3:21; 31:16; Isaiah 15:3 (בבכי יֹרֵד ייליל see Jeremiah 9:17); so also Genesis 45:2 (בב אתקֿלו ׳ויתן) & Jeremiah 48:5 (בכי יעלה בבכי i.e. the sound of it shall ascend) — but text here suspicious, compare Isaiah 15:5; as disfiguring Job 16:16; "" words of mourning Esther 4:3 (מִסְמֵּד צוֺם, אֵבֶל,), Jeremiah 31:9 (תחנונים compare 3:21), 9:10; 31:15 (נהי), compare משׁה אבל בכיDeuteronomy 34:8 & Di on the passage; cotrition (humiliation) Joel 2:12 (מִסְמֵּד צום,), Isaiah 22:12 (שׂק חגור קרחה, מספד,), compare Malachi 2:13 (דמעה אנקה,); of bitter weeping Isaiah 22:4 בַּבֶּ֑כִי אֲמָרֵר, compare Jeremiah 31:15 (& Isaiah 33:7); יעזר בכי 16:9; Jeremiah 48:32 i.e. Ya`zer in Moab, compare יעזר proper name; Psalm 102:10 (בב ׳שׁקוי מסכתי compare 42:4; 80:6 & Babylonian dîmtu maštîtî, tears (were) my drink ZimBP 34, 42). Trop., of trickling streams (נהרות) in mines — hindrance to miners Job 28:11.