בֶּדֶק bedeq

Hebrew word for “breach” · Strong’s H919 · used 10 times in 8 verses

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Meaning

fissure, rent, breach, leak (in a building)

How it is translated

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

• damage 8
• leaks 2

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

2 Kings 12 (5), Ezekiel 27 (2), 2 Kings 22 (1)

Forms

• בדק 7
• בדקך 2
• לבדק 1

Words used with it

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

• חָזַק chazaq “to strengthen” 8
• מַכָּר makkar “acquaintance” 2
• מַלָּח mallach “mariner” 2
• מַעֲרָב maarav “merchandise” 2
• יְהוֹאָשׁ yehoash “Jehoash” 2
• כֹּהֵן kohen “priest” 4
• עָרַב arav “to pledge” 2
• אֵת et “with” 3
• לָקַח laqach “to take” 3
• ךְ kh “you” 2
• יָם yam “sea” 2
• כֶּסֶף keseph “silver” 2

Key verses

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

• 2 Kings 12:5 — Let the priests take it to them, every man of his acquaintance: and let them repair the breaches of the house, wheresoever any breach shall be found.
• 2 Kings 12:6 — But it was so, that in the three and twentieth year of king Jehoash the priests had not repaired the breaches of the house.
• 2 Kings 12:7 — Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and the other priests, and said unto them, Why repair ye not the breaches of the house? now therefore receive…
• 2 Kings 12:8 — And the priests consented to receive no more money of the people, neither to repair the breaches of the house.
• 2 Kings 12:12 — And to masons, and hewers of stone, and to buy timber and hewed stone to repair the breaches of the house of the LORD, and for all that was laid out for the…
• 2 Kings 22:5 — And let them deliver it into the hand of the doers of the work, that have the oversight of the house of the LORD: and let them give it to the doers of the work…
• Ezekiel 27:9 — The ancients of Gebal and the wise men thereof were in thee thy calkers: all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in thee to occupy thy merchandise.
• Ezekiel 27:27 — Thy riches, and thy fairs, thy merchandise, thy mariners, and thy pilots, thy calkers, and the occupiers of thy merchandise, and all thy men of war, that are…

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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.