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Strong's H1234: בָּקַע (bâqaʻ) Definition

Strong's number
H1234
Lemma
בָּקַע
Transliteration
bâqaʻ
Pronunciation
baw-kah'
Strong's definition
to cleave; generally, to rend, break, rip or open make a breach, break forth (into, out, in pieces, through, up), be ready to burst, cleave (asunder), cut out, divide, hatch, rend (asunder), rip up, tear, win. a primitive root;

50 instances of the word בָּקַע bâqaʻ (H1234)


  • Judges 15:19 - clave But God an hollow place that was in the jaw and there came water thereout and when he had drunk came again his spirit and he revived wherefore he called the name thereof Enhakkore which is in Lehi unto this day

  • Micah 1:4 - shall be molten And the mountains under him and the valleys shall be cleft as wax before the fire and as the waters that are poured down a steep place

  • Nehemiah 9:11 - of the sea And thou didst divide before them so that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land and their persecutors thou threwest into the deeps as a stone waters into the mighty

  • Numbers 16:31 - And it came to pass as he had made an end of speaking all these words clave asunder that the ground

  • Proverbs 3:20 - By his knowledge the depths are broken up and the clouds drop down the dew

  • Psalms 74:15 - Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood thou driedst up rivers mighty

  • Psalms 78:13 - He divided the sea and caused them to pass through to stand and he made the waters as an heap

  • Psalms 78:15 - He clave the rocks in the wilderness and gave them drink depths as out of the great

  • Psalms 141:7 - as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth are scattered Our bones mouth at the grave's

  • Zechariah 14:4 - shall stand And his feet in that day and the mount of Olives which is before Jerusalem on the east shall cleave and the mount of Olives and half thereof toward the east and toward the west valley great and there shall be a very shall remove and half and the mount toward the north and half of it toward the south