Weep בָּכָה

Inspiring Words Knight Vision · Feb 25, 2025 · 4m

Our word for today is often found next to our word from yesterday. בָּכָה weep, weep for, cry freely and profusely, bemoan, make lamentation. It is used 114 times in the Old Testament. It is most often used when someone is experiencing a very intense emotion. Like when a loved one has died, is dying or in life and death situations. Genesis 21:6 When the water in the skin was gone, she put the boy under one of the bushes. Then she went off and sat down about a bowshot away, for she thought, “I cannot watch the boy die.” And as she sat there, she began to בָּכָהsob. We see the word used to…