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# בׇּצְקַת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1218

**Bozcath** — 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

Bozcath [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1218/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בָּצְקַת: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1218/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. (? cf. Arabic بَصْقَةٌ an elevated region covered with volcanic stones) city of Judah toward Philistines, בָּצְקַת Jos 15:39; בָּצְקַ֑ת 2 K 22:1 (home of Josiah’s mother).

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, 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: Bozkath (2).

## In the verses

[Joshua 15:39](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.15.39/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.15.39/#tree)

לָכִ֥ישׁ וּבָצְקַ֖ת וְעֶגְלֽוֹן׃

*Word for word:* Lachish and Bozkath and Eglon

*JPS 1917:* Lachish, and Bozkath, and Eglon;

[2 Kings 22:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.22.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.22.1/#tree)

בֶּן־שְׁמֹנֶ֤ה שָׁנָה֙ יֹאשִׁיָּ֣הוּ בְמָלְכ֔וֹ וּשְׁלֹשִׁ֤ים וְאַחַת֙ שָׁנָ֔ה מָלַ֖ךְ בִּירוּשָׁלִָ֑ם וְשֵׁ֣ם אִמּ֔וֹ יְדִידָ֥ה בַת־עֲדָ֖יָה מִבָּצְקַֽת׃

*Word for word:* \[was\].a.son of.eight year\[s\] Josiah when he became.king and thirty and one year\[s\] he.reigned in Jerusalem and the.name his.mother his \[was\].Jedidah the.daughter of.Adaiah from Bozkath

*JPS 1917:* Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign; and he reigned thirty and one years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Jedidah the daughter of Adaiah of Bozkath.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1218/): 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).