בּוּךְ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H943

perplex — used 3 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

Meaning

OpenScriptures lexical index

perplex tree →

Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בּוּךְ: vb. perplex, confuse tree →

The whole BDB entry

vb. perplex, confuse (? Arabic بَاكَ stir up (water of spring) the be disturbed, confused; cf. Assyrian bâku, lead captive, orig. lead astray? COT Ezr 4:2)—only Pf. 3 fs. נָב֫וֹכָה Est 3:15; 3 mpl. נָבֹ֫כוּ Jo 1:18, Pt. pl. נְבֻכִים Ex 14:3;—be confused, in confusion (of a city) Est 3:15; = wander aimlessly (of Isr.) Ex 14:3; so of cattle Jo 1:18 (Merx proposes בָּכוּ, after 𝔊 ἔκλαυσαν, but בכה not elsewhere of cattle).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: [are] wandering in confusion (1); it was in confusion (1); they have wandered in confusion (1).

In the verses

Exodus 14:3 · tree →

וְאָמַ֤ר פַּרְעֹה֙ לִבְנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל נְבֻכִ֥ים הֵ֖ם בָּאָ֑רֶץ סָגַ֥ר עֲלֵיהֶ֖ם הַמִּדְבָּֽר׃

Word for word: and he.will.say Pharaoh of the.people of.Israel [are].wandering.in.confusion they in the land it.has.shut on them the wilderness

JPS 1917: And Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel: They are entangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut them in.

Joel 1:18 · tree →

מַה־נֶּאֶנְחָ֣ה בְהֵמָ֗ה נָבֹ֙כוּ֙ עֶדְרֵ֣י בָקָ֔ר כִּ֛י אֵ֥ין מִרְעֶ֖ה לָהֶ֑ם גַּם־עֶדְרֵ֥י הַצֹּ֖אן נֶאְשָֽׁמוּ׃

Word for word: how! it.has.groaned [the].livestock they.have.wandered.in.confusion [the].herds of.cattle (dm) there.[is].not pasture for them also the.flocks of.(the) sheep they.have.suffered

JPS 1917: How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.

On Mova

This word in the Tanakh dictionary on Mova free.
Trees and pragmatics of its meanings: every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).

This page in Markdown → https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/biblical-hebrew/בוך/