STRONGS NUMBER H1066


Word Summary
Bokim: "weepers", a place in Palestine
Original Word: בֹּכִים
Transliteration: Bokim
Phonetic Spelling: (bo-keem')
Part of Speech: Proper Name Location
Short Definition: "weepers", a place in Palestine
Meaning: Bochim -- "weepers", a place in Palestine
Strong's Concordance
Bochim

Plural active participle of bakah; (with the article) the weepers; Bo-kim, a place in Palestine -- Bochim.

see HEBREW bakah

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H1066. Bokim

בֹּכִיםproper name, of a location near Bethel, אלהַֿבֹּכִיםJudges 2:1, בֹּכִים2:5 (compare 2:4); ᵐ52:1 τὸν Κλαυθμῶνα καὶ ἐπὶ Βαιθηλ; 2:5 Κλαυθμῶνες i.e. יִם בְּכָּ‎ (ᵐ5L Κλαυθμών); — on possible connection with בָּכוּת אַלּוֺןGenesis 35:8 compare Stu & WeBleek's Einl. ed. 4, 183, compare Hexateuch 1889, 215; but perhaps read ביתאל‎ instead of בכים‎ in 35:1, compare We BuRS20.