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Bible Lexicons

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Strong's #1066 - בֹּכִים

Transliteration

Bôkîym

Phonetics

bo-keem'

Origin

pl. active participle of (H1058)

Parts of Speech

TWOT

None

Definition

Brown-Driver-Briggs
Strong

Brown-Driver-Briggs'

Bochim = “weeping”

1) a place near Gilgal (or Bethel), where sons of Israel wept

Frequency Lists

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Verse Results

KJV (2)

NAS (2)

HCS (2)

BSB (2)

ESV (2)

WEB (2)

Brown-Driver-Briggs Expanded Definition

בֹּכִים proper name, of a location near Bethel, אלהַֿבֹּכִים Judges 2:1, בֹּכִים Judges 2:5 (compare Judges 2:4); ᵐ5 Judges 2:1 τὸν Κλαυθμῶνα καὶ ἐπὶ Βαιθηλ; Judges 2:5 Κλαυθμῶνες i.e. בְּכָּ יִם (ᵐ5^L Κλαυθμών); — on possible connection with אַלּוֺן בָּכוּת Genesis 35:8 compare Stu & We^{Bleek's Einl. ed. 4,183, compare Hexateuch 1889,215}; but perhaps read ביתאל instead of בכים in Genesis 35:1, compare We Bu^RS20.

Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Definition

בֹּכִים (“weepers”), [Bochim], pr.n. of a place near Gilgal; Judges 2:1, Judges 2:5.

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List of Word Forms

בֹּכִ֑ים בכים הַבֹּכִ֑ים הבכים bō·ḵîm boChim bōḵîm hab·bō·ḵîm habboChim habbōḵîm