בַּקָּרָה
baqqârâh · H1243 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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seeking, looking for
Action by which someone carefully focuses his/her eyes on a group of objects in order to locate something specific among them
ExamplesEzekiel 34:12 “As a shepherd cares for his flock on a day when he is among his scattered sheep, so I will care for My sheep and will rescue them from all the places where they were scattered on a cloudy and gloomy day.
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- רֹעִיshepherd 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- עֵדֶרflock 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בin/on/with+ יוֹםday, time 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Semantic domains 1 entry
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- בַּקָּרָה describes a shepherd's careful search for his scattered flock, as in Ezekiel 34:12's "as a shepherd cares for his flock... so I will care for My sheep" (בְּבַקָּרַת), naming the attentive searching-out of what is lost.
Word family 7 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1243. baqqarah [בַּקָּרָה] verbal noun feminine a seeking, עֶדְרוֺ רֹעֶה כְּבַקָּרַת Eze…
[בַּקָּרָה] verbal noun feminine a seeking, עֶדְרוֺ רֹעֶה כְּבַקָּרַת Eze 34:12 like a shepherd's seeking his flock.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
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