בֹּקֶר boqer

Hebrew word for “morning” · Strong’s H1242 · used 214 times in 189 verses

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Meaning

1) morning, break of day;

How it is translated

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

• morning 207
• mornings 4
• this morning 1
• like the morning 1
• has been to the mornings 1

Where it is used

Also in 17 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Exodus 16 (9), Genesis 1 (6), Judges 19 (5), 1 Samuel 25 (4), Exodus 29 (3), Exodus 34 (3), Leviticus 6 (3), Numbers 9 (3), Numbers 22 (3), Numbers 28 (3)

Forms

• בבקר 105
• בקר 40
• הבקר 33
• לבקר 15
• ובבקר 6
• לבקרים 5
• מהבקר 3
• ובקר 2
• ולבקר 2
• מבקר 1

Words used with it

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

• עֶרֶב erev “evening” 44
• שָׁכַם shakham “to rise” 35
• עַד ad “till” 43
• לַיְלָה laylah “night” 16
• עֹלָה olah “burnt offering” 14
• לוּן lun “to lodge” 11
• אוֹר or “light” 11
• הִנֵּה hinneh “behold” 17
• הָלַךְ halakh “to go” 19
• עָלָה alah “to ascend” 16
• קוּם qum “to arise” 13
• מִן־ min “from” 15

Key verses

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

• Exodus 19:16 — And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet…
• Numbers 16:5 — And he spake unto Korah and unto all his company, saying, Even to morrow the LORD will shew who are his, and who is holy; and will cause him to come near unto…
• 1 Samuel 25:36 — And Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal’s heart was merry within him, for he was very…
• 2 Chronicles 20:20 — And they rose early in the morning, and went forth into the wilderness of Tekoa: and as they went forth, Jehoshaphat stood and said, Hear me, O Judah, and ye…
• Job 1:5 — And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt…
• Psalms 30:5 — For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.
• Isaiah 37:36 — Then the angel of the LORD went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the…
• Isaiah 50:4 — The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he…
• Jeremiah 21:12 — O house of David, thus saith the LORD; Execute judgment in the morning, and deliver him that is spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my fury go out…
• Micah 2:1 — Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.
• Zephaniah 3:3 — Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow.
• Zephaniah 3:5 — The just LORD is in the midst thereof; he will not do iniquity: every morning doth he bring his judgment to light, he faileth not; but the unjust knoweth no…

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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.