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בֶּכֶה

be.kheh

bitterly

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Strong’s H1059Noun, masculine1 time in the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

Translated as

weeping1

In the text

Ezra 10:1בֶכֶה ס
While Ezra prayed and made this confession, weeping and falling facedown before the house of God, a very large assembly of Israelites—men, women, and children—gathered around him, and the people wept bitterly as well.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

בֶּ֫כֶה n.[m.] a weeping, only Ezr 10:1

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.