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# בָּכָא

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1056

**balsam-tree** — 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

balsam-tree [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1056/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בָּכָא: balsam-tree [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1056/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] balsam-tree (v. Arabic بَكْأٌ DozyZMG 1869, 188 but LöwNo. 47; according to TA like جرجير, an eruca, cf. Lane s.v.; perhaps cf. بَكَأَ give little milk, of camel, i.e. drop, drip); pl. בְּכָאִים 2 S 5:23, 24 = 1 Ch 14:14, 15; sg. in עֵמֶק הַבָּכָא ψ 84:7 balsam-vale, cf. De Che.

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

## In the verses

[Psalms 84:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.84.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.84.7/#tree)

עֹבְרֵ֤י ׀ בְּעֵ֣מֶק הַ֭בָּכָא מַעְיָ֣ן יְשִׁית֑וּהוּ גַּם־בְּ֝רָכ֗וֹת יַעְטֶ֥ה מוֹרֶֽה׃

*Word for word:* \[those.who\].pass in the.valley of.(the) Baca a.spring they make.it also blessings it.covers.\[it\] early.rain

*JPS 1917:* Passing through the valley of Baca they make it a place of springs; yea, the early rain clotheth it with blessings.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1056.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1056/): 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).