Strong's Definition
a primitive root; to cleave; generally, to rend, break, rip or open
KJV Usage: 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
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
בָּקַע (ba.qa) — to break up/open. 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
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb · בָּקִיעַ · בֶּקַע · בִּקְעָה
Non-Whole | verb nif, verb pu'al, verb hit, verb hof | ≈ פתח · רטשׁ | ≠ צרר
to be split, to be cleft, to be breached, to be cracked, to be ripped open, to be rent, to burst, to burst asunder = process by which an object is split, either partially or completely, either by supernatural means or by violence
EXO 14:21 · NUM 16:31 · JOS 9:4 · JOS 9:13 · 1KI 1:40 · 2KI 25:4 · 2CH 25:12 · JOB 26:8 · JOB 32:19 · JER 39:2 · JER 52:7 · EZK 26:10 · EZK 30:16 · HOS 14:1 · MIC 1:4 · ZEC 14:4
Non-Whole | verb qal, verb pi
to split, to cleave, to rip open, to cut, to rend, to maul, to divide, to break through = causative action by which deities or human cause an object to split, either partially or completely, either by supernatural means or by violence
GEN 22:3 · EXO 14:16 · JDG 15:19 · 1SA 6:14 · 2KI 2:24 · 2KI 8:12 · 2KI 15:16 · NEH 9:11 · JOB 28:10 · PSA 78:13 · PSA 78:15 · PSA 141:7 · ECC 10:9 · ISA 48:21 · ISA 63:12 · EZK 13:11 · EZK 29:7 · HOS 13:8 · AMO 1:13 · HAB 3:9
Possess | verb qal, verb hif
to take a part for oneself = causative action by which someone takes part of an object belonging to someone else in order to add it to one's own possession
Move | verb nif
to burst forth, to break out = process by which natural forces find their way by breaking through any obstacles that keep them from moving forward
Move | verb qal, verb hif
to break through, to invade = action by which humans find their way by breaking through all obstacles that keep them from moving forward
Move | verb qal, verb pi | ≠ יבשׁ
to cause to break through, to unleash = causative action by which God causes natural forces to find their way by breaking through any obstacles that keep them from moving forward
Birth | verb nif
to be hatched = process by which the shell of an egg breaks open and a young animal comes out
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
בָּקַע vb. cleave, break open or through Qal cleave, cleave open
break through or into
Niph. be cleft, rent open
be broken into
Pi. cleave, cut to pieces, or rend open
Pu. be ripped open
Hiph. break into
Hoph. the city was broken into
Hithp. burst (themselves) open, of wine-skins; cleave asunder, of valleys
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