{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "H1234",
  "lemma": "בָּקַע",
  "transliteration": "bâqaʻ",
  "definition": "to cleave; generally, to rend, break, rip or open",
  "kjv": "make a breach, break forth (into, out, in pieces, through, up), be ready to burst…",
  "occurrences": 51,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "בָּקַע vb. cleave, break open or through",
    "Qal",
    "1. cleave, cleave open",
    "2. break through or into",
    "Niph.",
    "1. be cleft, rent open",
    "2. be broken into",
    "Pi. cleave, cut to pieces, or rend open",
    "Pu. be ripped open",
    "Hiph. break into",
    "Hoph. the city was broken into",
    "Hithp. burst (themselves) open, of wine-skins; cleave asunder, of valleys"
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 7:11",
      "text": "In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/7?v=11"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 22:3",
      "text": "Abraham rose early in the morning, and saddled his donkey; and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/22?v=3"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 14:16",
      "text": "Lift up your rod, and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it. Then the children of Israel shall go into the…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/14?v=16"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 14:21",
      "text": "Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all night, and…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/14?v=21"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Numbers 16:31",
      "text": "As he finished speaking all these words, the ground that was under them split apart.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/16?v=31"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Joshua 9:4",
      "text": "they also resorted to a ruse, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks on their donkeys…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/9?v=4"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Joshua 9:13",
      "text": "These wineskins, which we filled, were new; and behold, they are torn. These our garments and our sandals have become…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/9?v=13"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Judges 15:19",
      "text": "But God split the hollow place that is in Lehi, and water came out of it. When he had drunk, his spirit came again, and…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/15?v=19"
    },
    {
      "reference": "1 Samuel 6:14",
      "text": "The cart came into the field of Joshua of Beth Shemesh, and stood there, where there was a great stone. Then they split…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/6?v=14"
    },
    {
      "reference": "2 Samuel 23:16",
      "text": "The three mighty men broke through the army of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem that was by…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/23?v=16"
    }
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