Strong's Concordance

Hebrew-Aramaic
H1234

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Original: בּקע

Transliteration: baqa (bâqa‛)

Phonetic: baw-kah'

BDB Definition:

to split, cleave, break open, divide, break through, rip up, break up, tear
1. (Qal)
  1. to cleave, cleave open
  2. to break through, break into
2. (Niphal)
  1. to be cleft, be rent open, be split open
  2. to be broken into
3. (Piel)
  1. to cleave, cut to pieces, rend open
  2. to break through, break down
4. (Pual)
  1. to be ripped open, be torn open
  2. to be rent
  3. to be broken into
5. (Hiphil)
  1. to break into
  2. to break through
6. (Hophal) to be broken into
7. (Hithpael) to burst (themselves) open, cleave asunder

Origin: a primitive root

TWOT entry: 271

Part(s) of speech: Verb

Strong's Definition: A primitive root; to cleave ; generally to rend, break, rip or open: - make a breach, break forth (into, out, in pieces, through, up), be ready to burst, cleave (asunder), cut out, divide, hatch, rend (asunder), rip up, tear, win.

Occurrences in the (KJV) King James Version:

All Occurrences (51x)

And Brake (1x)

And Clave (1x)

And Cleaveth (1x)

And Divide (1x)

And Hatch (1x)

And Rend (1x)

And Rent (1x)

And Rip Up (1x)

And Tare (1x)

And They Clave (1x)

And Thou Didst Divide (1x)

And, Behold, They Be Rent (1x)

Are Broken Up (1x)

Brake Through (2x)

Break Forth (1x)

Break Out (1x)

Breaketh Out (1x)

Broken Up (1x)

Clave (1x)

Clave Asunder (1x)

Dividing (1x)

For Them: He Clave (1x)

He Clave (1x)

He Cutteth Out (1x)

He Divided (1x)

He Ripped Up (1x)

He That Cleaveth (1x)

I Will Even Rend (1x)

Is Not Rent (1x)

It Is Ready To Burst (1x)

It, And Let Us Make A Breach (1x)

Rent (1x)

Shall Be Cleft (1x)

Shall Be Rent Asunder (1x)

Shall Be Ripped Up (1x)

Shall Cleave (1x)

Shall Rend (1x)

Shall Tear (1x)

That They All Were Broken In Pieces (1x)

Thereof; Because They Have Ripped Up (1x)

They Hatch (1x)

Thou Didst Cleave (2x)

To Break Through (1x)

To Win (1x)

Was Broken Up (3x)

Were Divided (1x)

Wherein Is Made A Breach (1x)

All Occurrences

Genesis 7:11

In 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.(e)

Genesis 22:3

And 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 14:16

But 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 14:21

And 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 16:31

And 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 9:4

They 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;

Joshua 9:13

And these bottles of wine, which we filled, were new; and, behold, they be rent: and these our garments and our shoes are become old by reason of the very long journey.

Judges 15:19

But God clave an hollow place that was in the jaw, and there came water thereout; and when he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he revived: wherefore he called the name thereof En–hakkore, which is in Lehi unto this day.(i)

(j)

1 Samuel 6:14

And the cart came into the field of Joshua, a Beth–shemite, and stood there, where there was a great stone: and they clave the wood of the cart, and offered the kine a burnt offering unto the Lord .

2 Samuel 23:16

And the three mighty men brake through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Beth–lehem, that was by the gate, and took it, and brought it to David: nevertheless he would not drink thereof, but poured it out unto the Lord .

1 Kings 1:40

And all the people came up after him, and the people piped with pipes, and rejoiced with great joy, so that the earth rent with the sound of them.(p)

2 Kings 2:24

And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the Lord . And there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two children of them.

2 Kings 3:26

And when the king of Moab saw that the battle was too sore for him, he took with him seven hundred men that drew swords, to break through even unto the king of Edom: but they could not.

2 Kings 8:12

And Hazael said, Why weepeth my lord? And he answered, Because I know the evil that thou wilt do unto the children of Israel: their strong holds wilt thou set on fire, and their young men wilt thou slay with the sword, and wilt dash their children, and rip up their women with child.

2 Kings 15:16

Then Menahem smote Tiphsah, and all that were therein, and the coasts thereof from Tirzah: because they opened not to him, therefore he smote it; and all the women therein that were with child he ripped up.

2 Kings 25:4

And the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between two walls, which is by the king’s garden: (now the Chaldees were against the city round about:) and the king went the way toward the plain.

1 Chronicles 11:18

And the three brake through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Beth–lehem, that was by the gate, and took it, and brought it to David: but David would not drink of it, but poured it out to the Lord ,

2 Chronicles 21:17

And they came up into Judah, and brake into it, and carried away all the substance that was found in the king’s house, and his sons also, and his wives; so that there was never a son left him, save Jehoahaz, the youngest of his sons.(d)

(e)

2 Chronicles 25:12

And other ten thousand left alive did the children of Judah carry away captive, and brought them unto the top of the rock, and cast them down from the top of the rock, that they all were broken in pieces.

2 Chronicles 32:1

After these things, and the establishment thereof, Sennacherib king of Assyria came, and entered into Judah, and encamped against the fenced cities, and thought to win them for himself.(a)

Nehemiah 9:11

And thou didst divide the sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land; and their persecutors thou threwest into the deeps, as a stone into the mighty waters.

Job 26:8

He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them.

Job 28:10

He cutteth out rivers among the rocks; and his eye seeth every precious thing.

Job 32:19

Behold, my belly is as wine which hath no vent; it is ready to burst like new bottles.(m)

Psalm 74:15

Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up mighty rivers.(g)

Psalm 78:13

He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as an heap.

Psalm 78:15

He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the great depths.

Psalm 141:7

Our bones are scattered at the grave’s mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth.

Proverbs 3:20

By his knowledge the depths are broken up, and the clouds drop down the dew.

Ecclesiastes 10:9

Whoso removeth stones shall be hurt therewith; and he that cleaveth wood shall be endangered thereby.

Isaiah 7:6

Let us go up against Judah, and vex it, and let us make a breach therein for us, and set a king in the midst of it, even the son of Tabeal:(e)

Isaiah 34:15

There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow: there shall the vultures also be gathered, every one with her mate.

Isaiah 35:6

Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert.

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Brown-Driver-Brigg's Information

All of the original Hebrew and Aramaic words are arranged by the numbering system from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible. In some cases more than one form of the word — such as the masculine and feminine forms of a noun — may be listed.

Each entry is a Hebrew word, unless it is designated as Aramaic. Immediately after each word is given its equivalent in English letters, according to a system of transliteration. Then follows the phonetic. Next follows the Brown-Driver-Briggs' Definitions given in English.

Then ensues a reference to the same word as found in Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament (TWOT), by R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, Jr., and Bruce K. Waltke. This section makes an association between the unique number used by TWOT with the Strong's number.

Thayers Information

All of the original Greek words are arranged by the numbering system from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible. The Strong's numbering system arranges most Greek words by their alphabetical order. This renders reference easy without recourse to the Greek characters. In some cases more than one form of the word - such as the masculine, feminine, and neuter forms of a noun - may be listed.

Immediately after each word is given its exact equivalent in English letters, according to the system of transliteration laid down in the scheme here following. Then follows the phonetic. Next follows the Thayer's Definitions given in English.

Then ensues a reference to the same word as found in the ten-volume Theological Dictionary of the New Testament (TDNT), edited by Gerhard Kittel. Both volume and page numbers cite where the word may be found.

The presence of an asterisk indicates that the corresponding entry in the Theological Dictionary of the New Testament may appear in a different form than that displayed in Thayers' Greek Definitions.

Strong's Hebrew and Greek Dictionaries Information

Dictionaries of Hebrew and Greek Words taken from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance by James Strong, S.T.D., LL.D., 1890.

Strong's Concor­dance

Hebrew-Aramaic H1234

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Strong's Concordance

Hebrew-Aramaic
H1234