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Strong's H1234 בָּקַע (baqa)

Baqa means “cleave” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's G1234 — diagongyzo (“murmur”) in the Greek Bible.

Strong's Number H1234
Language Hebrew
Linked Usages 50
Books 24

Strong's H1234 Quick Answer

Strong's H1234 בָּקַע (baqa`) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. baqa` (baw-kah') v. 1. to cleave 2. (generally) to rend, break, rip or open It has 50 linked Bible usages across 24 books. Visible English usage signals include out, into, rend, break, and cleave. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.

Meaning
baqa` (baw-kah') v. 1. to cleave 2. (generally) to rend, break, rip or open
Usage
50 linked usages
Books
24 indexed books
Corpus
Old Testament
Usage Words
out, into, rend, break, and cleave

Meaning and Definition

baqa` (baw-kah') v. 1. to cleave 2. (generally) to rend, break, rip or open [a primitive root] KJV: make a breach, break forth (into, out, in pieces, through, up), be ready to burst, cleave (asunder), cut out, divide, hatch, rend (asunder), rip up, tear, win.

Original Word
בָּקַע
Transliteration
baqa`
Derivation
Root: בקע
Morphology
verb

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H1234. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)

to break up/open

Usage: 1) to split, cleave, break open, divide, break through, rip up, break up, tear 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to cleave, cleave open 1a2) to break through, break into 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to be cleft, be rent open, be split open 1b2) to be broken into 1c) (Piel) 1c1) to cleave, cut to pieces, rend open 1c2) to break through, break down 1d) (Pual) 1d1) to be ripped open, be torn open 1d2) to be rent 1d3) to be broken into 1e) (Hiphil) 1e1) to break into 1e2) to break through 1f) (Hophal) to be broken into 1g) (Hithpael) to burst

(themselves) open, cleave asunder

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How Strong's H1234 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render baqa`, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

out Exodus 14:16 into 1 Samuel 6:14 rend Ezekiel 13:11 break 2 Kings 3:26 cleave Psalms 74:15 make Isaiah 7:6 forth 2 Kings 2:24 pieces 2 Chronicles 25:12 breach Ezekiel 26:10 breaketh Isaiah 59:5 opened 2 Kings 15:16 rip 2 Kings 8:12 were Genesis 7:11

How Strong's H1234 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Old Testament with 50 linked usages.
  • The linked rows are Old Testament Hebrew usage, grouped by book for fast canonical scanning.

Strong's H1234 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's H1234 in the Old Testament

50 indexed usages in Old Testament.

Genesis 7:11 KJV

In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.

Genesis 22:3 KJV

And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him.

Exodus 14:16 KJV

But lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thine hand over the sea, and divide it: and the children of Israel shall go on dry ground through the midst of the sea.

Usage Excerpts

First 50 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H1234.

Genesis 7:11 Old Testament, KJV
In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
Genesis 22:3 Old Testament, KJV
And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him.
Exodus 14:16 Old Testament, KJV
But lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thine hand over the sea, and divide it: and the children of Israel shall go on dry ground through the midst of the sea.
Exodus 14:21 Old Testament, KJV
And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
Numbers 16:31 Old Testament, KJV
And it came to pass, as he had made an end of speaking all these words, that the ground clave asunder that was under them:
Joshua 9:4 Old Testament, KJV
They did work wilily, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks upon their asses, and wine bottles, old, and rent, and bound up;
Joshua 9:13 Old Testament, KJV
And these bottles of wine, which we filled, were new; and, behold, they be rent: and these our garments and our shoes are become old by reason of the very long journey.
Judges 15:19 Old Testament, KJV
But God clave an hollow place that was in the jaw, and there came water thereout; and when he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he revived: wherefore he called the name thereof Enhakkore, which is in Lehi unto this day.
1 Samuel 6:14 Old Testament, KJV
And the cart came into the field of Joshua, a Bethshemite, and stood there, where there was a great stone: and they clave the wood of the cart, and offered the kine a burnt offering unto the LORD.
2 Samuel 23:16 Old Testament, KJV
And the three mighty men brake through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem, that was by the gate, and took it, and brought it to David: nevertheless he would not drink thereof, but poured it out unto the LORD.
1 Kings 1:40 Old Testament, KJV
And all the people came up after him, and the people piped with pipes, and rejoiced with great joy, so that the earth rent with the sound of them.
2 Kings 2:24 Old Testament, KJV
And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the LORD. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two children of them.
2 Kings 3:26 Old Testament, KJV
And when the king of Moab saw that the battle was too sore for him, he took with him seven hundred men that drew swords, to break through even unto the king of Edom: but they could not.
2 Kings 8:12 Old Testament, KJV
And Hazael said, Why weepeth my lord? And he answered, Because I know the evil that thou wilt do unto the children of Israel: their strong holds wilt thou set on fire, and their young men wilt thou slay with the sword, and wilt dash their children, and rip up their women with child.
2 Kings 15:16 Old Testament, KJV
Then Menahem smote Tiphsah, and all that were therein, and the coasts thereof from Tirzah: because they opened not to him, therefore he smote it; and all the women therein that were with child he ripped up.
2 Kings 25:4 Old Testament, KJV
And the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between two walls, which is by the king's garden: (now the Chaldees were against the city round about:) and the king went the way toward the plain.
1 Chronicles 11:18 Old Testament, KJV
And the three brake through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem, that was by the gate, and took it, and brought it to David: but David would not drink of it, but poured it out to the LORD.
2 Chronicles 21:17 Old Testament, KJV
And they came up into Judah, and brake into it, and carried away all the substance that was found in the king's house, and his sons also, and his wives; so that there was never a son left him, save Jehoahaz, the youngest of his sons.
2 Chronicles 25:12 Old Testament, KJV
And other ten thousand left alive did the children of Judah carry away captive, and brought them unto the top of the rock, and cast them down from the top of the rock, that they all were broken in pieces.
2 Chronicles 32:1 Old Testament, KJV
After these things, and the establishment thereof, Sennacherib king of Assyria came, and entered into Judah, and encamped against the fenced cities, and thought to win them for himself.
Nehemiah 9:11 Old Testament, KJV
And thou didst divide the sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land; and their persecutors thou threwest into the deeps, as a stone into the mighty waters.
Job 26:8 Old Testament, KJV
He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them.
Job 28:10 Old Testament, KJV
He cutteth out rivers among the rocks; and his eye seeth every precious thing.
Job 32:19 Old Testament, KJV
Behold, my belly is as wine which hath no vent; it is ready to burst like new bottles.
Psalms 74:15 Old Testament, KJV
Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up mighty rivers.
Psalms 78:13 Old Testament, KJV
He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as an heap.
Psalms 78:15 Old Testament, KJV
He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the great depths.
Psalms 141:7 Old Testament, KJV
Our bones are scattered at the grave's mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth.
Proverbs 3:20 Old Testament, KJV
By his knowledge the depths are broken up, and the clouds drop down the dew.
Ecclesiastes 10:9 Old Testament, KJV
Whoso removeth stones shall be hurt therewith; and he that cleaveth wood shall be endangered thereby.
Isaiah 7:6 Old Testament, KJV
Let us go up against Judah, and vex it, and let us make a breach therein for us, and set a king in the midst of it, even the son of Tabeal:
Isaiah 34:15 Old Testament, KJV
There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow: there shall the vultures also be gathered, every one with her mate.
Isaiah 35:6 Old Testament, KJV
Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert.
Isaiah 48:21 Old Testament, KJV
And they thirsted not when he led them through the deserts: he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them: he clave the rock also, and the waters gushed out.
Isaiah 58:8 Old Testament, KJV
Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the LORD shall be thy reward.
Isaiah 59:5 Old Testament, KJV
They hatch cockatrice' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.
Isaiah 63:12 Old Testament, KJV
That led them by the right hand of Moses with his glorious arm, dividing the water before them, to make himself an everlasting name?
Jeremiah 39:2 Old Testament, KJV
And in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, the city was broken up.
Jeremiah 52:7 Old Testament, KJV
Then the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled, and went forth out of the city by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king's garden; (now the Chaldeans were by the city round about:) and they went by the way of the plain.
Ezekiel 13:11 Old Testament, KJV
Say unto them which daub it with untempered morter, that it shall fall: there shall be an overflowing shower; and ye, O great hailstones, shall fall; and a stormy wind shall rend it.
Ezekiel 13:13 Old Testament, KJV
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even rend it with a stormy wind in my fury; and there shall be an overflowing shower in mine anger, and great hailstones in my fury to consume it.
Ezekiel 26:10 Old Testament, KJV
By reason of the abundance of his horses their dust shall cover thee: thy walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen, and of the wheels, and of the chariots, when he shall enter into thy gates, as men enter into a city wherein is made a breach.
Ezekiel 29:7 Old Testament, KJV
When they took hold of thee by thy hand, thou didst break, and rend all their shoulder: and when they leaned upon thee, thou brakest, and madest all their loins to be at a stand.
Ezekiel 30:16 Old Testament, KJV
And I will set fire in Egypt: Sin shall have great pain, and No shall be rent asunder, and Noph shall have distresses daily.
Hosea 13:8 Old Testament, KJV
I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps, and will rend the caul of their heart, and there will I devour them like a lion: the wild beast shall tear them.
Hosea 13:16 Old Testament, KJV
Samaria shall become desolate; for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up.
Amos 1:13 Old Testament, KJV
Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of the children of Ammon, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have ripped up the women with child of Gilead, that they might enlarge their border:
Micah 1:4 Old Testament, KJV
And the mountains shall be molten under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, and as the waters that are poured down a steep place.
Habakkuk 3:9 Old Testament, KJV
Thy bow was made quite naked, according to the oaths of the tribes, even thy word. Selah. Thou didst cleave the earth with rivers.
Zechariah 14:4 Old Testament, KJV
And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's H1234, grouped by book.

Genesis 2 usages, Old Testament
Exodus 2 usages, Old Testament
Numbers 1 usage, Old Testament
Joshua 2 usages, Old Testament
Judges 1 usage, Old Testament
1 Samuel 1 usage, Old Testament
2 Samuel 1 usage, Old Testament
1 Kings 1 usage, Old Testament
2 Kings 5 usages, Old Testament
1 Chronicles 1 usage, Old Testament
2 Chronicles 3 usages, Old Testament
Nehemiah 1 usage, Old Testament
Job 3 usages, Old Testament
Psalms 4 usages, Old Testament
Proverbs 1 usage, Old Testament
Ecclesiastes 1 usage, Old Testament
Isaiah 7 usages, Old Testament
Jeremiah 2 usages, Old Testament
Ezekiel 5 usages, Old Testament
Hosea 2 usages, Old Testament
Amos 1 usage, Old Testament
Micah 1 usage, Old Testament
Habakkuk 1 usage, Old Testament
Zechariah 1 usage, Old Testament

Strong's H1234 FAQ

What does baqa (בָּקַע) mean?

Baqa (Strong's H1234) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "cleave". baqa` (baw-kah') v. 1. to cleave 2. (generally) to rend, break, rip or open

How many times is baqa (בָּקַע) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 50 linked usages for Strong's H1234 across 24 books.

Where can I study baqa (בָּקַע) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H1234 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.

What English words translate baqa (בָּקַע)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as out, into, rend, break, cleave, and make. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.