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בָּקַק

bakak · empty, lay waste

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H1238 · appears 9 times in the Bible

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What it means

bakak (בָּקַק) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “empty, lay waste”.

To empty, to lay waste; figuratively, to strip a land of its people.

How to say it

ba·kak

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. To leave with nothing; lay a land waste.
  2. Full of branches and leaves.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

  • Emptied ×4
  • I will empty ×1
  • emptying ×1
  • luxuriant ×1
  • they will empty ×1
  • those who empty ×1

Related words

Words that come from it

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

Where it appears

  • Isaiah 19:3

    And the spirit of Egypt will be emptied out within it, and its counsel I will swallow up; and they will consult the idols and the charmers and those who call up the dead and the spiritists.

  • Isaiah 24:1

    Look, YHWH is emptying the earth and laying it waste; and he distorts its surface and scatters its inhabitants.

  • Isaiah 24:3

    Emptied, the earth will be emptied; and plundered, it will be plundered; for YHWH has spoken this word.

  • Jeremiah 19:7

    And I will empty the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place, and I will make them fall by the sword before their enemies and by the hand of those who seek their life; and I will give their corpses as food for the birds of the heavens and for the animals of the earth.

  • Jeremiah 51:2

    And I will send to Babylon strangers, and they will winnow her, and they will empty her land; for they will be against her all around in the day of evil.

  • Hosea 10:1

    Israel is a luxuriant vine; he produces fruit for himself; according to the abundance of his fruit, he has multiplied the altars; according to the goodness of his land, they have improved the standing stones.

  • Nahum 2:2

    For YHWH restores the pride of Jacob as the pride of Israel, for those who empty have emptied them and their vine branches they have destroyed.

And 2 more times.