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בָּקַע H1234

H1234 is the Hebrew word בָּקַע, transliterated bâqaʻ and said baw-kah'. The King James Version most often renders it clave.

Word: בָּקַעTransliteration: bâqaʻSaid: baw-kah'Language: HebrewIn the KJV: 42 verses

What it means

to cleave; generally, to rend, break, rip or open.

Where it comes from

a primitive root.

How the King James Version translates it

Across 23 tagged occurrences, counted from this edition's word index.

clave 5×broken up 4×rent 2×brake through 2×didst cleave 2×hatch 2×divide 1×behold they be rent 1×tare 1×break through 1×rip up 1×ripped up 1×

Strong's own list of renderings: 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.

Verses using בָּקַע

The first 40 of 42 verses, quoted in full.

Genesis 7:11 · KJV

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, and the windows of heaven were opened.

Genesis 22:3 · KJV

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 clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him.

Exodus 14:16 · KJV

But lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thine hand over the sea, and divide it: and the children of Israel shall go on dry ground through the midst of the sea.

Joshua 9:4 · KJV

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, and bound up;

Joshua 9:13 · KJV

And these bottles of wine, which we filled, were new; and, behold, they be rent: and these our garments and our shoes are become old by reason of the very long journey.

Judges 15:19 · KJV

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

1 Samuel 6:14 · KJV

And the cart came into the field of Joshua, a Bethshemite, and stood there, where there was a great stone: and they clave the wood of the cart, and offered the kine a burnt offering unto the LORD.

2 Samuel 23:16 · KJV

And the three mighty men brake through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem, that was by the gate, and took it, and brought it to David: nevertheless he would not drink thereof, but poured it out unto the LORD.

1 Kings 1:40 · KJV

And all the people came up after him, and the people piped with pipes, and rejoiced with great joy, so that the earth rent with the sound of them.

2 Kings 2:24 · KJV

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 tare forty and two children of them.

2 Kings 3:26 · KJV

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 even unto the king of Edom: but they could not.

2 Kings 8:12 · KJV

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 their women with child.

2 Kings 15:16 · KJV

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.

2 Kings 25:4 · KJV

And the city was broken up, 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.

1 Chronicles 11:18 · KJV

And the three brake through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem, that was by the gate, and took it, and brought it to David: but David would not drink of it, but poured it out to the LORD,

2 Chronicles 21:17 · KJV

And they came up into Judah, and brake into 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 · KJV

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.

2 Chronicles 32:1 · KJV

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 them for himself.

Nehemiah 9:11 · KJV

And thou didst divide 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 28:10 · KJV

He cutteth out rivers among the rocks; and his eye seeth every precious thing.

Job 32:19 · KJV

Behold, my belly is as wine which hath no vent; it is ready to burst like new bottles.

Psalm 74:15 · KJV

Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up mighty rivers.

Psalm 78:13 · KJV

He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as an heap.

Psalm 78:15 · KJV

He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the great depths.

Psalm 141:7 · KJV

Our bones are scattered at the grave’s mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth.

Proverbs 3:20 · KJV

By his knowledge the depths are broken up, and the clouds drop down the dew.

Ecclesiastes 10:9 · KJV

Whoso removeth stones shall be hurt therewith; and he that cleaveth wood shall be endangered thereby.

Isaiah 7:6 · KJV

Let us go up against Judah, and vex it, and let us make a breach therein for us, and set a king in the midst of it, even the son of Tabeal:

Isaiah 34:15 · KJV

There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow: there shall the vultures also be gathered, every one with her mate.

Isaiah 35:6 · KJV

Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert.

Isaiah 48:21 · KJV

And they thirsted not when he led them through the deserts: he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them: he clave the rock also, and the waters gushed out.

Isaiah 58:8 · KJV

Then shall thy light break forth 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 · KJV

They hatch 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 63:12 · KJV

That led them by the right hand of Moses with his glorious arm, dividing the water before them, to make himself an everlasting name?

Jeremiah 52:7 · KJV

Then the city was broken up, 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 13:13 · KJV

Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even rend 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 29:7 · KJV

When they took hold of thee by thy hand, thou didst break, and rend all their shoulder: and when they leaned upon thee, thou brakest, and madest all their loins to be at a stand.

Ezekiel 30:16 · KJV

And I will set fire in Egypt: Sin shall have great pain, and No shall be rent asunder, and Noph shall have distresses daily.

Amos 1:13 · KJV

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 the women with child of Gilead, that they might enlarge their border:

Micah 1:4 · KJV

And the mountains shall be molten under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, and as the waters that are poured down a steep place.

Common questions

What does Strong's H1234 mean?

H1234 is the Hebrew word בָּקַע (bâqaʻ), meaning to cleave; generally, to rend, break, rip or open.

How is H1234 translated in the King James Version?

The King James translators rendered it clave (5 times), broken up (4 times), rent (2 times), brake through (2 times), didst cleave (2 times), among others.

How many times does H1234 appear in the Bible?

בָּקַע (bâqaʻ) is tagged in 42 verses of the King James Version in this edition's word index.

Where does H1234 come from?

Strong's gives its derivation as: a primitive root.

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