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# בִּקֹּרֶת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1244

**punishment** — 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

punishment [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1244/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בִּקֹּ֫רֶת: n.f. punishment inquisition [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1244/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. punishment after examination (inquisition) Lv 19:20; (scourging 𝔙 AV after Jewish trad. Kerith 11 a Sifra Saad AE Ki cf. MalbimSifra Jastrow.Dict. 165.)

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, 1 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: compensation (1).

## In the verses

[Leviticus 19:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.19.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.19.20/#tree)

וְ֠אִישׁ כִּֽי־יִשְׁכַּ֨ב אֶת־אִשָּׁ֜ה שִׁכְבַת־זֶ֗רַע וְהִ֤וא שִׁפְחָה֙ נֶחֱרֶ֣פֶת לְאִ֔ישׁ וְהָפְדֵּה֙ לֹ֣א נִפְדָּ֔תָה א֥וֹ חֻפְשָׁ֖ה לֹ֣א נִתַּן־לָ֑הּ בִּקֹּ֧רֶת תִּהְיֶ֛ה לֹ֥א יוּמְת֖וּ כִּי־לֹ֥א חֻפָּֽשָׁה׃

*Word for word:* and a.man (dm) he.will.lie with a.woman a.laying of.seed and she \[is\].a.female.slave intended for a.man and indeed.(be.released) not she.had.been.released or freedom not it.had.been.given to her compensation it.will.be not they.will.be.put.to.death (dm) not she.had.been.given.freedom

*JPS 1917:* And whosoever lieth carnally with a woman, that is a bondmaid, designated for a man, and not at all redeemed, nor was freedom given her; there shall be inquisition; they shall not be put to death, because she was not free.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1244.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1244/): 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).