בּוּקָה
bûwqâh · H950 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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emptiness, desolation
Exact meaning unsure; probably: state of total desolation as a result of destruction
ExamplesNahum 2:10 She is emptied! Yes, she is desolate and waste! Hearts are melting and knees wobbling! Also trembling is in the entire body, And all their faces have become pale!
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
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Semantic domains 1 entry
- Non-Exist002002002006
- The word describes emptiness or a desolate void, as Nahum asks where the lions' den has gone, its former activity reduced to nothing, fitting this domain's sense of absence or nonexistence.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H950. buqah בּוּקָה noun feminine emptiness, Nah 2:11 וּמְבֻלָּקֱה וּמְבוּקָה בּוּקה…
בּוּקָה noun feminine emptiness, Nah 2:11 וּמְבֻלָּקֱה וּמְבוּקָה בּוּקה emptiness and void and waste.
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
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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