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Judges 14:16
“And Samson’s wife wept before him, and said, Thou dost but hate me, and lovest me not: thou hast put forth a riddle unto the children of my people, and hast not told it me. And he said unto her, Behold, I have not told it my father nor my mother, and shall I tell it thee?” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H1058 · Hebrew
- Definition
- to weep; generally to bemoan
- Derivation
- a primitive root;
- KJV renderings
- [idiom] at all, bewail, complain, make lamentation, [idiom] more, mourn, [idiom] sore, [idiom] with tears, weep.
- Grammar
- וַ — conjunction
- תֵּבְךְּ֩ — verb Qal, sequential imperfect, 3rd person, feminine, singular
- Usage
- Occurs 116 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 21:16Genesis 23:2Genesis 27:38Genesis 29:11Genesis 33:4
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 בָּכָה here.
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.