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# בָּזָק

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H965

**lightning flash** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

lightning flash [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/965/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בָּזָק: lightning flash [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/965/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] lightning flash? Ez 1:14 Hi Co del.; verse om. in old MSS. of 𝔊; sense uncertain, possibly error for ברק.

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

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: lightning (1).

## In the verses

[Ezekiel 1:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.1.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.1.14/#tree)

וְהַחַיּ֖וֹת רָצ֣וֹא וָשׁ֑וֹב כְּמַרְאֵ֖ה הַבָּזָֽק׃

*Word for word:* and the.living creatures they.were.running and they.were.returning like the.appearance of.(the) lightning

*JPS 1917:* And the living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/965.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/965/): 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).