בָּקַע baqa

Hebrew word for “to break up/open” · Strong’s H1234 · used 51 times in 50 verses

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Meaning

1) to split, cleave, break open, divide, break through, rip up, break up, tear;

How it is translated

Glosses given for baqa in context, with how often each is used:

• split open 12
• broken into 4
• split 2
• broke through 2
• will be split open 2
• cut 1
• divide 1
• divided 1
• have split 1
• tore in pieces 1
• break through 1
• will rip open 1

Where it is used

Also in 12 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Exodus 14 (2), Joshua 9 (2), Psalms 78 (2), Ezekiel 13 (2), Hosea 13 (2), Genesis 7 (1), Genesis 22 (1), Numbers 16 (1), Judges 15 (1), 1 Samuel 6 (1)

Forms

• נבקעו 4
• ויבקעו 4
• ותבקע 4
• תבקע 4
• ויבקע 3
• בקע 3
• יבקע 3
• בקעת 2
• בוקע 2
• ובקעהו 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with baqa more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• מַי mayim “water” 11
• הָרָה harah “pregnant” 4
• אֶבֶן even “stone” 5
• הָלַךְ halakh “to go” 8
• שַׁעַר shaar “gate” 5
• יָם yam “sea” 5
• תְּהוֹם tehom “abyss” 3
• עֲרָבָה aravah “Arabah” 3
• אֶלְגָּבִישׁ elgavish “hail” 2
• צוּר tsur “rock” 3
• רוּחַ ruach “spirit” 4
• נֹאד nod “wineskin” 2

Key verses

The verses using baqa that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• Psalms 78:13 — He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as an heap.
• 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.
• Isaiah 58:8 — Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the…
• Isaiah 63:12 — That led them by the right hand of Moses with his glorious arm, dividing the water before them, to make himself an everlasting name?
• Hosea 13:16 — Samaria shall become desolate; for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women…
• Amos 1:13 — Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of the children of Ammon, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have ripped up…
• Zechariah 14:4 — And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.