Usually translated as
cleave, rend, make a breach, divide, hatch, be ready to burst, tear, win, break forth, cut out, rip up
Occurrences
Bâqaʻ occurs 47 times in 46 verses of the King James.
Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (2), Exodus (2), Joshua (2), 1 Samuel (1), 1 Kings (1), 2 Kings (5), 2 Chronicles (3), Nehemiah (1), Job (3), Psalms (4), Proverbs (1), Ecclesiastes (1), Isaiah (7), Jeremiah (2), Ezekiel (5), Hosea (2), Amos (1), Micah (1), Habakkuk (1), Zechariah (1)
- 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 up (נִבְקְעוּ֙), and the windows of heaven were opened.
- Genesis 22:3 — And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and (וַיְבַקַּע֙) clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him.
- Exodus 14:16 — But lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thine hand over the sea, and divide (וּבְקָעֵ֑הוּ) it: and the children of Israel shall go on dry ground through the midst of the sea.
- 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 waters were divided (וַיִּבָּקְע֖וּ).
- Joshua 9:4 — They did work wilily, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks upon their asses, and wine bottles, old, and rent (וּמְבֻקָּעִ֖ים), and bound up;
- Joshua 9:13 — And these bottles of wine, which we filled, were new; and, behold, they be rent (הִתְבַּקָּ֑עוּ): and these our garments and our shoes are become old by reason of the very long journey.
- 1 Samuel 6:14 — And the cart came into the field of Joshua, a Beth-shemite, and stood there, where there was a great stone: and (וַֽיְבַקְּעוּ֙) they clave the wood of the cart, and offered the kine a burnt offering unto the LORD.
- 1 Kings 1:40 — And all the people came up after him, and the people piped with pipes, and rejoiced with great joy, so that the earth rent (וַתִּבָּקַ֥ע) with the sound of them.
- 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 (וַתְּבַקַּ֣עְנָה) tare forty and two children of them.
- 2 Kings 3:26 — And when the king of Moab saw that the battle was too sore for him, he took with him seven hundred men that drew swords, to break through (לְהַבְקִ֛יעַ) even unto the king of Edom: but they could not.
- 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 on fire, and their young men wilt thou slay with the sword, and wilt dash their children, and rip up (תְּבַקֵּֽעַ) their women with child.
- 2 Kings 15:16 — Then Menahem smote Tiphsah, and all that were therein, and the coasts thereof from Tirzah: because they opened not to him, therefore he smote it; and all the women therein that were with child he ripped up (בִּקֵּֽעַ).
- 2 Kings 25:4 — And the city was broken up (וַתִּבָּקַ֣ע), 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 were against the city round about:) and the king went the way toward the plain.
- 2 Chronicles 21:17 — And they came up into Judah, and brake into (וַיִּבְקָע֔וּהָ) it, and carried away all the substance that was found in the king’s house, and his sons also, and his wives; so that there was never a son left him, save Jehoahaz, the youngest of his sons.
- 2 Chronicles 25:12 — And other ten thousand left alive did the children of Judah carry away captive, and brought them unto the top of the rock, and cast them down from the top of the rock, that they all were broken in pieces (נִבְקָֽעוּ).
- 2 Chronicles 32:1 — After these things, and the establishment thereof, Sennacherib king of Assyria came, and entered into Judah, and encamped against the fenced cities, and thought to win (לְבִקְעָ֥ם) them for himself.
- Nehemiah 9:11 — And thou didst divide (בָּקַ֣עְתָּ) the sea 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 into the mighty waters.
- Job 26:8 — He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent (נִבְקַ֖ע) under them.
- Job 28:10 — He cutteth out (בִּקֵּ֑עַ) rivers among the rocks; and his eye seeth every precious thing.
- Job 32:19 — Behold, my belly is as wine which hath no vent; it is ready to burst (יִבָּקֵֽעַ) like new bottles.
- Psalms 74:15 — Thou didst cleave (בָ֭קַעְתָּ) the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up mighty rivers.
- Psalms 78:13 — He divided (בָּ֣קַע) the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as an heap.
- Psalms 78:15 — He (יְבַקַּ֣ע) clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the great depths.
- Psalms 141:7 — Our bones are scattered at the grave’s mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth (וּבֹקֵ֣עַ) wood upon the earth.
- Proverbs 3:20 — By his knowledge the depths are broken up (נִבְקָ֑עוּ), and the clouds drop down the dew.
- Ecclesiastes 10:9 — Whoso removeth stones shall be hurt therewith; and he that cleaveth (בּוֹקֵ֥עַ) wood shall be endangered thereby.
- Isaiah 7:6 — Let us go up against Judah, and vex it, and let us make a breach (וְנַבְקִעֶ֖נָּה) therein for us, and set a king in the midst of it, even the son of Tabeal:
- Isaiah 34:15 — There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch (וּבָקְעָ֖ה), and gather under her shadow: there shall the vultures also be gathered, every one with her mate.
- 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 (נִבְקְע֤וּ), and streams in the desert.
- Isaiah 48:21 — And they thirsted not when he led them through the deserts: he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for (וַיִּ֨בְקַע) them: he clave the rock also, and the waters gushed out.
- Isaiah 58:8 — Then shall thy light break forth (יִבָּקַ֤ע) as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the LORD shall be thy rereward.
- Isaiah 59:5 — They hatch (בִּקֵּ֔עוּ) cockatrice’ eggs, and weave the spider’s web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.
- Isaiah 59:5 — They hatch cockatrice’ eggs, and weave the spider’s web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out (תִּבָּקַ֥ע) into a viper.
- Isaiah 63:12 — That led them by the right hand of Moses with his glorious arm, dividing (בּ֤וֹקֵֽעַ) the water before them, to make himself an everlasting name?
- Jeremiah 39:2 — And in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, the city was broken up (הָבְקְעָ֖ה).
- Jeremiah 52:7 — Then the city was broken up (וַתִּבָּקַ֣ע), and all the men of war fled, and went forth out of the city by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king’s garden; (now the Chaldeans were by the city round about:) and they went by the way of the plain.
- Ezekiel 13:11 — Say unto them which daub it with untempered morter, that it shall fall: there shall be an overflowing shower; and ye, O great hailstones, shall fall; and a stormy wind shall rend (תְּבַקֵּֽעַ) it.
- Ezekiel 13:13 — Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even rend (וּבִקַּעְתִּ֥י) it with a stormy wind in my fury; and there shall be an overflowing shower in mine anger, and great hailstones in my fury to consume it.
- Ezekiel 26:10 — By reason of the abundance of his horses their dust shall cover thee: thy walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen, and of the wheels, and of the chariots, when he shall enter into thy gates, as men enter into a city wherein is made a breach (מְבֻקָּעָֽה).
- Ezekiel 29:7 — When they took hold of thee by thy hand, thou didst break, and rend (וּבָקַעְתָּ֥) all their shoulder: and when they leaned upon thee, thou brakest, and madest all their loins to be at a stand.
- Ezekiel 30:16 — And I will set fire in Egypt: Sin shall have great pain, and No shall be rent asunder (לְהִבָּקֵ֑עַ), and Noph shall have distresses daily.
- Hosea 13:8 — I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps, and will rend the caul of their heart, and there will I devour them like a lion: the wild beast shall tear (תְּבַקְּעֵֽם) them.
- 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 with child shall be ripped up (יְבֻקָּֽעוּ).
- 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 (בִּקְעָם֙) the women with child of Gilead, that they might enlarge their border:
- Micah 1:4 — And the mountains shall be molten under him, and the valleys shall be cleft (יִתְבַּקָּ֑עוּ), as wax before the fire, and as the waters that are poured down a steep place.
- Habakkuk 3:9 — Thy bow was made quite naked, according to the oaths of the tribes, even thy word. Selah. Thou didst cleave (תְּבַקַּע) the earth with rivers.
- 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 (וְנִבְקַע֩) in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.