bedek · breach, damage

What it means

bedek (בֶּדֶק) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “breach, damage”.

A breach or crack through which a building or a ship gives way. In 2 Kings 12 and 22 it is the damage to the house of YHWH that had to be repaired.

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. A gap that needs repair.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• breaches ×7
• cracks ×2
• breach ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• 2 Kings×8
• Ezekiel×2

• 2 Kings 12:5

  let the priests take it for themselves, each from his acquaintance, and let them repair the breaches of the house, wherever a breach is found.”

• 2 Kings 12:6

  And it happened in year twenty three years of King Joash that the priests had not repaired the breaches of the house.

• 2 Kings 12:7

  King Joash called Jehoiada the priest and the priests and said to them, “Why are you not repairing the breaches of the house? Now do not take silver from your acquaintances, but for the breaches of the house you are to give it.”

• 2 Kings 12:8

  The priests agreed not to take silver from the people and not to repair the breaches of the house.

• 2 Kings 12:12

  and to the masons and to the stonecutters, and to buy timber and quarried stones to repair the breaches of the house of YHWH, and for all that was spent on the house to repair it.

• 2 Kings 22:5

  and let them give it into the hand of those who do the work, who are appointed over the house of YHWH; and let them give it to those who do the work that is in the house of YHWH, to repair the breaches of the house:

• Ezekiel 27:9

  The elders of Gebal and her wise men were in you, repairing your cracks; all the ships of the sea and their sailors were in you to carry on your exchange.

• Ezekiel 27:27

  Your wealth and your wares, your exchange, your sailors and your pilots, those who repair your cracks, and those who carry on your exchange, and all your men of war who are in you, and all your assembly that is in your midst, will fall into the heart of the seas on the day of your fall.

And 2 more times.