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בָּזָק

bâzâq · H965 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. lightning

    A brilliant electric spark discharge in the atmosphere

    Examples

    Ezekiel 1:14 And the living beings ran back and forth like bolts of lightning.

How it’s used In 1 role

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

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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Near synonyms 1 word
לַפִּיד lappîyd · H3940 · torch, flame
בָּזָק (bâzâq, H965) emphasizes the momentary flash or brightness; לַפִּיד (lappîyd, H3940) can denote the lightning phenomenon more broadly, and also extends to man-made torches/lamps.
Semantic domains 1 entry
Fire001002005006
The word denotes a flash of lightning, described as the living beings darting back and forth 'like bolts of lightning' in Ezekiel 1:14, fitting this domain's category for fire-related phenomena.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H965. bazaq בָּזָק noun [masculine] lightning flash ? Eze 1:14 Hi Co strike out; verse…
H965. bazaq
בָּזָק noun [masculine] lightning flash ? Eze 1:14 Hi Co strike out; verse omitted in old MSS. of ᵐ5; sense uncertain, possibly error for ברק.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Fire1 occurrence

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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