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# בּוּךְ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H943

**perplex** — used 3 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

perplex [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/943/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בּוּךְ: vb. perplex, confuse [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/943/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. perplex, confuse (? Arabic بَاكَ stir up (water of spring) the be disturbed, confused; cf. Assyrian bâku, lead captive, orig. lead astray? COT Ezr 4:2)—only Pf. 3 fs. נָב֫וֹכָה Est 3:15; 3 mpl. נָבֹ֫כוּ Jo 1:18, Pt. pl. נְבֻכִים Ex 14:3;—be confused, in confusion (of a city) Est 3:15; = wander aimlessly (of Isr.) Ex 14:3; so of cattle Jo 1:18 (Merx proposes בָּכוּ, after 𝔊 ἔκλαυσαν, but בכה not elsewhere of cattle).

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

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[are\] wandering in confusion (1); it was in confusion (1); they have wandered in confusion (1).

## In the verses

[Exodus 14:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.14.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.14.3/#tree)

וְאָמַ֤ר פַּרְעֹה֙ לִבְנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל נְבֻכִ֥ים הֵ֖ם בָּאָ֑רֶץ סָגַ֥ר עֲלֵיהֶ֖ם הַמִּדְבָּֽר׃

*Word for word:* and he.will.say Pharaoh of the.people of.Israel \[are\].wandering.in.confusion they in the land it.has.shut on them the wilderness

*JPS 1917:* And Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel: They are entangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut them in.

[Joel 1:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOL.1.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOL.1.18/#tree)

מַה־נֶּאֶנְחָ֣ה בְהֵמָ֗ה נָבֹ֙כוּ֙ עֶדְרֵ֣י בָקָ֔ר כִּ֛י אֵ֥ין מִרְעֶ֖ה לָהֶ֑ם גַּם־עֶדְרֵ֥י הַצֹּ֖אן נֶאְשָֽׁמוּ׃

*Word for word:* how! it.has.groaned \[the\].livestock they.have.wandered.in.confusion \[the\].herds of.cattle (dm) there.\[is\].not pasture for them also the.flocks of.(the) sheep they.have.suffered

*JPS 1917:* How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/943.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/943/): 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).