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Isaiah 19:3

“And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards.” (KJV)

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Lexical meaning

בָּקַקbâqaq · baw-kah'
H1238 · Hebrew
Definition
to pour out, i.e. to empty, figuratively, to depopulate; by analogy, to spread out (as a fruitful vine)
Derivation
a primitive root;
KJV renderings
(make) empty (out), fail, [idiom] utterly, make void.
Grammar
  • וְ — conjunction
  • נָבְקָ֤ה — verb Niphal, sequential perfect, 3rd person, feminine, singular
Code HC/VNq3fs
Usage
Occurs 9 times in the Hebrew Bible.Isaiah 24:1Isaiah 24:3Isaiah 24:3Jeremiah 19:7Jeremiah 51:2

Theological interpretation (AI)

The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read בָּקַק here.

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Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.