# H1234 בָּקַע

בָּקַע (bâqaʻ), Strong’s H1234: 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…. Occurs 51 times.

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*bâqaʻ* — 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…

Occurs 51 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- 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

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 7:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/7?v=11) — 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…
- [Genesis 22:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/22?v=3) — Abraham rose early in the morning, and saddled his donkey; and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son…
- [Exodus 14:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/14?v=16) — Lift up your rod, and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it. Then the children of Israel shall go into the…
- [Exodus 14:21](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/14?v=21) — 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…
- [Numbers 16:31](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/16?v=31) — As he finished speaking all these words, the ground that was under them split apart.
- [Joshua 9:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/9?v=4) — they also resorted to a ruse, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks on their donkeys…
- [Joshua 9:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/9?v=13) — These wineskins, which we filled, were new; and behold, they are torn. These our garments and our sandals have become…
- [Judges 15:19](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/15?v=19) — 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…
- [1 Samuel 6:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/6?v=14) — The cart came into the field of Joshua of Beth Shemesh, and stood there, where there was a great stone. Then they split…
- [2 Samuel 23:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/23?v=16) — The three mighty men broke through the army of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem that was by…