Lexical Definition

‎בְּכִי‎ Bᵉkîy (bek-ee') weeping ^H:N-M
from ‎בָּכָה‎

overflowing, [idiom] sore, (continual) weeping, wept.

• a weeping
• by analogy, a dripping

1) a weeping, weeping

See Greek: κλαυθμός · κοπετός · κραυγή

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎בְּכִי‎ noun masculine^{Judg 21:2} weeping — ‎בְּכִי‎ Judg 21:2 + 20 t. (also construct Deut 34:8, etc.); ‎בִּבְכִ֑י‎ Gen 45:2 ‎בֶּ֑כִי‎ Isa 15:2 + 6 t.; suffix ‎בִּכְִיי֑‎ Ps 6:9* — weeping Ps 30:6*; Isa 15:2; Isa 15:5 as accusative of congnate meaning with verb (with ‎בכה‎) Judg 21:2; 2Sam 13:36; 2Kgs 20:3 = Isa 38:3 compare Isa 16:9 (‎בבכי‎) Jer 48:32 (‎מבכי‎); audible ‎׳‎‎קול ב‎ Ps 6:9*; Isa 65:19; Ezra 3:13 compare Jer 3:21; Jer 31:16; Isa 15:3 (‎ייליל יֹרֵד בבכי‎ see Jer 9:17*); so also Gen 45:2 (‎׳‎‎ויתן אתקֿלו בב‎) & Jer 48:5 (‎בבכי יעלה בכי‎ i.e. the sound of it shall ascend) — but text here suspicious, compare Isa 15:5 as disfiguring Job 16:16 || words of mourning Esth 4:3 (‎אֵבֶל‎, ‎צוֺם‎, ‎מִסְפֵּד‎), Jer 31:9 (‎תחנונים‎ compare Jer 3:21), Jer 9:10*; Jer 31:15 (‎נהי‎), compare ‎בכי אבל‎ ‎משׁה‎Deut 34:8 & Di on the passage; cotrition (humiliation) Joel 2:12 (‎צום‎, ‎מִסְפֵּד‎), Isa 22:12 (‎מספד‎, ‎קרחה‎, ‎חגור שׂק‎), compare Mal 2:13 (‎אנקה‎, ‎דמעה‎); of bitter weeping Isa 22:4 ‎אֲמָרֵר בַּבֶּ֑כִי‎, compare Jer 31:15 (& Isa 33:7); ‎בכי יעזר‎ Isa 16:9; Jer 48:32 i.e. Ya`zer in Moab, compare ‎יעזר‎ proper name; Ps 102:10* (‎מסכתי‎ ‎׳‎‎שׁקוי בב‎ compare Ps 42:4*; Ps 80:6* & Babylonian dîmtu maštîtî, tears (were) my drink Zim^{BP 34, 42}). Trop., of trickling streams (‎נהרות‎) in mines — hindrance to miners Job 28:11.

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