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# בָּקַר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1239

**inquire** — used 7 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

inquire [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1239/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בָּקַר: vb. inquire, seek [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1239/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. inquire, seek (NH id., Aramaic בְּקַר, ܒܩܰܪ; also Ethiopic በቀለ in deriv.; orig. divide, discern, cf. Arabic بَقَرَ slit, rip, split)—only Pf. 1 s. sf. וּבִקַּרְתִּים consec. Ez 34:11; Impf. יְבַקֵּר Lv 13:36; 27:33, אֲבַקֵּר Ez 34:12; Inf. cstr. לְבַקֵּר 2 K 16:15 + 2 times;—seek, look for, sq. לְ Lv 13:36; seek (to distinguish) sq. בֵּין־טוֹב לָרַע Lv. 27:33; seek (in order to care for) sq. acc. צֹאן Ez 34:11 (‖ דרשׁ) v 12, fig. of י׳ seeking his people; contemplate, sq. בְּ ψ 27:4 (‖ חָזָה בְּ); consider, reflect, abs. Pr 20:25 אַחַר נְדָרִים i.e. whether the vows were wise, or should be kept (cf. Str ad loc. & reff.); cf. perhaps 2 K 16:15 consider (what shall be done with the old altar); look at Klo, (so לְבַקֵּר 1 K 3:21 for 2nd בַּבֹּקֶר), AV RV to inquire by, 𝔖 for praying; perhaps denoting some religious service to be performed by king himself, cf. especially RSSem i.467.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Proverbs 20:25](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.20.25/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.20.25/#tree)

מוֹקֵ֣שׁ אָ֭דָם יָ֣לַע קֹ֑דֶשׁ וְאַחַ֖ר נְדָרִ֣ים לְבַקֵּֽר׃

*Word for word:* \[is\].a.snare of.a.person \[one.who\].he.will.say.rashly holiness and after \[the\].vows to consider

*JPS 1917:* It is a snare to a man rashly to say: 'Holy', and after vows to make inquiry.

[Ezekiel 34:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.34.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.34.11/#tree)

כִּ֛י כֹּ֥ה אָמַ֖ר אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהוִ֑ה הִנְנִי־אָ֕נִי וְדָרַשְׁתִּ֥י אֶת־צֹאנִ֖י וּבִקַּרְתִּֽים׃

*Word for word:* (dm) thus he.says Lord \[the\] Yahweh here I.\[am\] I and I.will.search.for (et) flock my and I will.seek.them

*JPS 1917:* For thus saith the Lord GOD: Behold, here am I, and I will search for My sheep, and seek them out.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1239.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1239/): 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).