bechi · weeping

What it means

bechi (בְּכִי) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “weeping”.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. The tears and wailing of one who suffers or mourns.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• weeping ×27
• weep ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Deuteronomy×1
• Judges×1
• 2 Samuel×1
• Ezra×1
• Esther×1
• Job×2
• Psalms×3
• Isaiah×7
• Jeremiah×8
• Joel×1
• Malachi×1

• Genesis 45:2

  He raised his voice in weeping, and the Egyptians heard, and the household of Pharaoh heard.

• Deuteronomy 34:8

  And the sons of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days; and the days of weeping in mourning for Moses were completed.

• Judges 21:2

  And the people came to Bethel and sat there until evening before Elohim, and they lifted up their voice and wept with great weeping.

• 2 Samuel 13:36

  As soon as he had finished speaking, look, the king’s sons came, and they raised their voice and wept; and the king too and all his servants wept with a very great weeping.

• Ezra 3:13

  And the people did not distinguish the sound of the shout of joy from the sound of the weeping of the people, for the people were shouting with a great shout, and the sound was heard far away.

• Esther 4:3

  And in every province, in the place where the word of the king and his law reached, there was great mourning among the Jews, and fasting and weeping and lamenting; sackcloth and ashes were spread out for many.

• Job 16:16

  My face is red from weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death,

• Job 28:11

  He bandages the weeping of the rivers, and what is hidden he brings out to the light.

• Psalms 6:8

  Depart from me, all who work wickedness, for YHWH has heard the voice of my weeping.

• Psalms 30:5

  For a moment in his anger, life in his favor; in the evening weeping lodges, and at morning, a shout of joy.

• Psalms 102:9

  For ashes like bread I have eaten, and my drink with weeping I have mixed,

• Isaiah 15:2

  He goes up to the house and to Dibon, to the high places to weep; over Nebo and over Medeba Moab wails; on all its heads baldness, every beard shaved off.

• Isaiah 15:3

  In its streets they gird themselves with sackcloth; on its rooftops and in its squares all of it wails, going down in weeping.

• Isaiah 15:5

  My heart cries out for Moab; its fugitives as far as Zoar, Eglath-shelishiyah; for the ascent of Luhith, with weeping they go up it; for on the road of Horonaim they raise a cry of shattering.

• Isaiah 16:9

  Therefore I will weep with the weeping of Jazer for the vine of Sibmah; I will drench you with my tears, Heshbon and Elealeh; for on your summer fruit and on your harvest the shout has fallen.

• Isaiah 22:4

  Therefore I said, “Look away from me; let me be bitter in weeping; do not hurry to comfort me over the devastation of the daughter of my people.”

• Isaiah 22:12

  And Adonai YHWH Tsevaot called on that day to weeping and to lamentation and to baldness and to girding on sackcloth.

• Isaiah 65:19

  And I will exult in Jerusalem and rejoice in my people; and no longer will be heard in her the sound of weeping or the sound of crying.

• Jeremiah 3:21

  A voice on the bare heights is heard, the weeping, the pleading of the children of Israel, for they have perverted their way, they have forgotten YHWH their Elohim.

• Jeremiah 9:10

  For the mountains I will take up weeping and wailing, and for the pastures of the wilderness a lament, for they are burned, with no man passing through, and the sound of cattle is not heard; from the birds of the heavens to the beasts, they have fled, they are gone.

• Jeremiah 31:9

  With weeping they will come, and with supplications I will lead them; I will make them walk by streams of water, on a straight road on which they will not stumble; for I have become to Israel a father, and Ephraim is my firstborn.

• Jeremiah 31:15

  Thus says YHWH: “A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation, bitter weeping: Rachel weeping for her children; she refuses to be comforted for her children, because they are no more.”

• Jeremiah 31:16

  Thus says YHWH: “Keep back your voice from weeping, and your eyes from tears; for there is a wage for your work, declares YHWH, and they will return from the land of the enemy.

• Jeremiah 48:5

  For the ascent of Luhith, with weeping they go up it, weeping; for on the descent of Horonaim they have heard the distress of the cry of breaking.

• Jeremiah 48:32

  More than the weeping of Jazer I will weep for you, vine of Sibmah! Your shoots crossed over the sea, to the sea of Jazer they reached; upon your summer fruit and upon your vintage the devastator has fallen.

• Joel 2:12

  Yet even now, declares YHWH, return to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with lamenting.

• Malachi 2:13

  And this a second thing you do: cover the altar of YHWH with tears, with weeping and groaning, because he no longer turns to the offering or takes it with favor from your hand.

And 1 more times.