Strong's Hebrew · H1238
H1238 bâqaq
בָּקַק
baw-kah'
be luxuriant
Looking for Greek G1238 diádēma? It has the same number in Strong's Greek lexicon but is a different word, not a translation of H1238. Strong's numbering starts again for each language.
bâqaq appears 9 times in Scripture, in Isaiah, Jeremiah, Hosea and Nahum. In the Doxa app, open any verse that uses it, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.
Definition
to pour out, i.e. to empty, figuratively, to depopulate; by analogy, to spread out (as a fruitful vine)
In the King James Version
(make) empty (out), fail, × utterly, make void.
Derivation
a primitive root;
Appears 9 times in Scripture
“The earth will be utterly laid waste and thoroughly plundered. For the LORD has spoken this word.”
“Behold, the LORD lays waste the earth and leaves it in ruins. He will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants—”
“And in this place I will ruin the plans of Judah and Jerusalem. I will make them fall by the sword before their enemies, by the hands of those who seek their lives, and I will give their carcasses as food to the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth.”
“Then the spirit of the Egyptians will be emptied out from among them, and I will frustrate their plans, so that they will resort to idols and spirits of the dead, to mediums and spiritists.”
“I will send strangers to Babylon to winnow her and empty her land; for they will come against her from every side in her day of disaster.”
“Israel was a luxuriant vine, yielding fruit for himself. The more his fruit increased, the more he increased the altars. The better his land produced, the better he made the sacred pillars.”
“For the LORD will restore the splendor of Jacob like the splendor of Israel, though destroyers have laid them waste and ruined the branches of their vine.”
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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).
