# H1058 בָּכָה

בָּכָה (bâkâh), Strong’s H1058: to weep; generally to bemoan KJV: [idiom] at all, bewail, complain, make lamentation, [idiom] more, mourn, [idiom] sore…. Occurs 116 times.

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*bâkâh* — to weep; generally to bemoan

KJV: [idiom] at all, bewail, complain, make lamentation, [idiom] more, mourn, [idiom] sore…

Occurs 116 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- בָּכָה 114 vb. weep, bewail
- Qal
- 1 weep
- 2 weep bitterly
- 3 weep upon
- 4 bewail
- 5 in sense of burden, annoy with weeping
- 6 of penitent weeping
- Pi. lament; bewail

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 21:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/21?v=16) — She went and sat down opposite him, a good way off, about a bow shot away. For she said, “Don’t let me see the death of…
- [Genesis 23:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/23?v=2) — Sarah died in Kiriath Arba (also called Hebron), in the land of Canaan. Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep…
- [Genesis 27:38](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/27?v=38) — Esau said to his father, “Do you have just one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, my father.” Esau lifted up…
- [Genesis 29:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/29?v=11) — Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept.
- [Genesis 33:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/33?v=4) — Esau ran to meet him, embraced him, fell on his neck, kissed him, and they wept.
- [Genesis 37:35](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/37?v=35) — All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. He said, “For I will go down…
- [Genesis 42:24](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/42?v=24) — He turned himself away from them, and wept. Then he returned to them, and spoke to them, and took Simeon from among…
- [Genesis 43:30](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/43?v=30) — Joseph hurried, for his heart yearned over his brother; and he sought a place to weep. He entered into his room, and…
- [Genesis 45:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/45?v=14) — He fell on his brother Benjamin’s neck and wept, and Benjamin wept on his neck.
- [Genesis 45:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/45?v=15) — He kissed all his brothers, and wept on them. After that his brothers talked with him.