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# בַּקְבֻּק

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1228

**flask** — 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

flask [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1228/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בַּקְבֻק: flask [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1228/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] flask (from gurgling sound of emptying, cf. Arabic بَقْبَقَةٌ gurgling sound; also Syriac ܒܰܓܒܽܘܓܳܐ, cantharus etc.)—abs. בַּקְבֻּק Je 19:10; cstr. id. 1 K 14:3 Je 19:1.

Why these entries: BDB: headword without dagesh, 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, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a jar (2); jar (1).

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 19:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.19.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.19.10/#tree)

וְשָׁבַרְתָּ֖ הַבַּקְבֻּ֑ק לְעֵינֵי֙ הָֽאֲנָשִׁ֔ים הַהֹלְכִ֖ים אוֹתָֽךְ׃

*Word for word:* and you.will.break the jar to the.eyes of the.men \[who\] go with you

*JPS 1917:* Then shalt thou break the bottle in the sight of the men that go with thee,

[Jeremiah 19:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.19.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.19.1/#tree)

כֹּ֚ה אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֔ה הָל֛וֹךְ וְקָנִ֥יתָ בַקְבֻּ֖ק יוֹצֵ֣ר חָ֑רֶשׂ וּמִזִּקְנֵ֣י הָעָ֔ם וּמִזִּקְנֵ֖י הַכֹּהֲנִֽים׃

*Word for word:* thus he.said Yahweh go and you.will.buy a.jar of.a.potter earthenware and some of.the.elders of the.people and some of.the.elders of the.priests

*JPS 1917:* Thus said the LORD: Go, and get a potter's earthen bottle, and take of the elders of the people, and of the elders of the priests;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1228.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1228/): 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).