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Lamentations 1:2
“She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks: among all her lovers she hath none to comfort her: all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies.” (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
- בָּכ֨וֹ — verb Qal, infinitive absolute
- 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.