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# בֶּדֶק

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H919

**fissure** — used 10 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

fissure [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/919/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בֶּ֫דֶק: n.m. fissure, rent, breach [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/919/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. 2 K 12:6 fissure, rent, breach (Aramaic בִּידְקָא, ܒܶܕܩܳܐ (Nasar.))—בּ׳ abs. 2 K 12:6; cstr. ib. + 6 times; sf. בִּדְקֵךְ Ez 27:9, 27;—in as building; temple ב׳ הַבַּיִת 2 K 12:6, 7, 8(×2), 9; 22:5, cf. 12:13 (ב׳ בֵּית י׳); v 6 abs.; law. c. חִזֵּק repair; cf. מַחֲזִיקֵי ב׳ repairers of thy fissures Ez 27:9, 27 (of Tyre).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: the damage (7); your leak\[s\] (2); damage (1).

## In the verses

[2 Kings 12:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.12.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.12.7/#tree)

וַיְהִ֗י בִּשְׁנַ֨ת עֶשְׂרִ֧ים וְשָׁלֹ֛שׁ שָׁנָ֖ה לַמֶּ֣לֶךְ יְהוֹאָ֑שׁ לֹֽא־חִזְּק֥וּ הַכֹּהֲנִ֖ים אֶת־בֶּ֥דֶק הַבָּֽיִת׃

*Word for word:* and it.was in year twenty and three year of the king Jehoash not they.had.repaired the priests (et) the.damage of the.house

*JPS 1917:* But it was so, that in the three and twentieth year of king Jehoash the priests had not repaired the breaches of the house.

[2 Kings 12:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.12.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.12.9/#tree)

וַיֵּאֹ֖תוּ הַכֹּֽהֲנִ֑ים לְבִלְתִּ֤י קְחַת־כֶּ֙סֶף֙ מֵאֵ֣ת הָעָ֔ם וּלְבִלְתִּ֥י חַזֵּ֖ק אֶת־בֶּ֥דֶק הַבָּֽיִת׃

*Word for word:* and they.agreed the priests to not to.take money from with the people and to not to.repair (et) the.damage of the.house

*JPS 1917:* And the priests consented that they should take no longer money from the people, neither repair the breaches of the house.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/919.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/919/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).