1. בְּכִי
weeping
The corpus record — Hebrew
בִּבְכִ֑י
bekiy · n.m
weeping
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Distribution
- Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) 28 · 0.91/10k
Senses
2. בְּכִי
a weeping; by analogy, a dripping
3. בַּבָּכִי
בַּבָּכִי Is 153 “weeping up and down” (7), alt
Attestations
- בִּ/בְכִ֑י Genesis 45:2 (BHS)
- בְכִ֖י Deuteronomy 34:8 (BHS)
- בְּכִ֥י Judges 21:2 (BHS)
- בְּכִ֖י 2 Samuel 13:36 (BHS)
- לְ/בֶ֑כִי Isaiah 15:2 (BHS)
- בַּ/בֶּֽכִי Isaiah 15:3 (BHS)
6 of 28 attestations shown.
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Hebrew text from the Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology and lemmatization from the OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible (OSHB), CC BY 4.0. Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) lexicon, public domain.