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# בֶּזֶק

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H966

**Bezek** — 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

Bezek [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/966/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בֶּ֫זֶק: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/966/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. 1 S 11:8 (בְּבָ֑זֶק) rendezvous of Israel under Saul and Sam.; Ju 1:4, 5 home of Adoni-bezek; on loc. cf. Euseb. LagOnom. 105, 2nd ed. 139; see also Stu. error in Ju 1:4, 5 (v. GFM). Ju 1:4; 17th (mile-)stone from Neapolis toward Scythopolis; mod. Ḫirbet Ibzîḳ, 14 Eng. m. from Nâblus, Surveyii. 231. NesAJSL xiii (1897), 176 conj. meaning gravel, cf. mod. Ramle = sand.

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 (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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: Bezek (3).

## In the verses

[1 Samuel 11:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.11.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.11.8/#tree)

וַֽיִּפְקְדֵ֖ם בְּבָ֑זֶק וַיִּהְי֤וּ בְנֵֽי־יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ שְׁלֹ֣שׁ מֵא֣וֹת אֶ֔לֶף וְאִ֥ישׁ יְהוּדָ֖ה שְׁלֹשִׁ֥ים אָֽלֶף׃

*Word for word:* and he mustered.them at Bezek and they.were the.people of.Israel three hundred(s) thousand and the.man of.Judah \[was\].thirty thousand

*JPS 1917:* And he numbered them in Bezek; and the children of Israel were three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty thousand.

[Judges 1:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.1.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.1.5/#tree)

וַֽ֠יִּמְצְאוּ אֶת־אֲדֹנִ֥י בֶ֙זֶק֙ אֲדֹנִ֥י בֶ֙זֶק֙ בְּבֶ֔זֶק וַיִּֽלָּחֲמ֖וּ בּ֑וֹ וַיַּכּ֕וּ אֶת־הַֽכְּנַעֲנִ֖י וְאֶת־הַפְּרִזִּֽי׃

*Word for word:* and they.found (et) Adoni-Bezek Adoni-Bezek at Bezek and they.fought against him and they.defeated (et) the Canaanite\[s\] and (et) the Perizzite\[s\]

*JPS 1917:* And they found Adoni-bezek in Bezek; and they fought against him, and they smote the Canaanites and the Perizzites.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/966.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/966/): 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).