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# בֹּכִים

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1066

**Bochim** — used 2 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

Bochim [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1066/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בֹּכִים: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1066/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. near Pethel, אל־הַבֹּכִים Ju 2:1, בֹּכִים v 5 (cf. v 4); 𝔊 2:1 τὸν Κλαυθμῶνα καὶ ἐμὶ Βαιθηλ; v 5 Κλαυθμῶνες i.e. בְּכָיִם (𝔊L Κλαυθμών);—on poss. connex. with אַלּוֹן בָּכוּת Gn 35:8 cf. Stu & WeBleek’s Einl. ed. 4, 183, Comp. Hex. 1889, 215; but perhaps read ביתאל instead of בכים in v 1, cf. We BuRS 20.

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

## In the verses

[Judges 2:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.2.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.2.5/#tree)

וַֽיִּקְרְא֛וּ שֵֽׁם־הַמָּק֥וֹם הַה֖וּא בֹּכִ֑ים וַיִּזְבְּחוּ־שָׁ֖ם לַֽיהוָֽה׃פ

*Word for word:* and they.called the.name of the.place (the) that Bokim and they.sacrificed there to Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* And they called the name of that place Bochim; and they sacrificed there unto the LORD.

[Judges 2:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.2.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.2.1/#tree)

וַיַּ֧עַל מַלְאַךְ־יְהוָ֛ה מִן־הַגִּלְגָּ֖ל אֶל־הַבֹּכִ֑יםפ וַיֹּאמֶר֩ אַעֲלֶ֨ה אֶתְכֶ֜ם מִמִּצְרַ֗יִם וָאָבִ֤יא אֶתְכֶם֙ אֶל־הָאָ֗רֶץ אֲשֶׁ֤ר נִשְׁבַּ֙עְתִּי֙ לַאֲבֹ֣תֵיכֶ֔ם וָאֹמַ֕ר לֹֽא־אָפֵ֧ר בְּרִיתִ֛י אִתְּכֶ֖ם לְעוֹלָֽם׃

*Word for word:* and he.went.up the.angel of.Yahweh from (the) Gilgal to (the) Bokim and he.said I.brought.up you from Egypt and I.brought you into the land which I.swore to ancestors your and I.said not I.will.break covenant my with you forever of.perpetuity

*JPS 1917:* And the angel of the LORD came up from Gilgal to Bochim. And he said: '...I made you to go up out of Egypt, and have brought you unto the land which I swore unto your fathers; and I said: I will never break My covenant with you;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1066.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1066/): 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).