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# בָּעַת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1204

**fall upon** — used 16 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

fall upon [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1204/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בָּעַת: vb. fall upon, startle, terrify [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1204/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. fall upon, startle, terrify (Arabic بَغَتَ come or happen suddenly, NH בָּעַת Hiph. startle; so Aramaic בְּעֵת Pa. ܒܥܶܬ Aph.)— (late prose) Pf. נִבְעַת 1 Ch 21:30, נִבְעָ֑ת Est 7:6; נִבְעַתִּי Dn 8:17;—be terrified, abs. Dn 8:17; c. מפני 1 Ch 21:30 Est 7:6. (mostly poet.) Pf. 3 fs. sf. בִּעֲתָ֑תְנִי Is 21:4, וּבִעֲתַ֫תּוּ 1 S 16:14; 3 pl. sf. בִּעֲתֻהוּ Jb 18:11; Impf. 3 fs. תְּבַעֵת Jb 13:11; sf. תְּבַעֲתַ֑נִּי Jb 9:34; 13:21, תְּבַעֲתֶ֑ךָּ Jb 33:7; 2 ms. sf. תְּבַעֲתַ֑נּי Jb 7:14; 3 mpl. sf. יְבַעֲתוּנִי ψ 18:5 = יְבַעֲתֻנִי 2 S 22:5, יְבַעֲתֻהוּ Jb 3:5; 15:24;— fall upon 1 S 16:14, 15 (fem. ptcp. c. suff. מְבַעִתֶּךָ in v 15); overwhelm Jb 3:5 (cf. לקח v 6) 9:34; 13:11 (‖ פחד נפל על) v 21 (cf. ‖) 15:24 (‖ תקף) 18:11 (‖ הפיץ) 33:7 (‖ כבד על) Is 21:4; assail ψ 18:5 = 2 S 22:5. terrify Jb 7:14 (‖ חתת).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 16 of its verses cited, 1 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 (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: they (4); it (3); let (3).

## In the verses

[2 Samuel 22:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.22.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.22.5/#tree)

כִּ֥י אֲפָפֻ֖נִי מִשְׁבְּרֵי־מָ֑וֶת נַחֲלֵ֥י בְלִיַּ֖עַל יְבַעֲתֻֽנִי׃

*Word for word:* (dm) they encompassed.me breakers of.death torrents of.worthlessness they overwhelmed.me

*JPS 1917:* For the waves of Death compassed me. The floods of Belial assailed me.

[Psalms 18:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.18.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.18.5/#tree)

אֲפָפ֥וּנִי חֶבְלֵי־מָ֑וֶת וְֽנַחֲלֵ֖י בְלִיַּ֣עַל יְבַֽעֲתֽוּנִי׃

*Word for word:* they encompassed.me cords of.death and torrents of.worthlessness they overwhelmed.me

*JPS 1917:* The cords of Death compassed me, and the floods of Belial assailed me.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1204.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1204/): 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).