Bible Names

Bochim: meaning of the name

Bochim means “the place of weeping; or of mulberry-trees.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

Bochim in Hebrew and Greek

בֹּכִים H1066

Bôkîym (bo-keem') — Bo-kim, a place in Palestine

plural active participle of H1058 (בָּכָה); (with the article) the weepers;

Places named Bochim

Bochim in Scripture

“Bochim” appears in 2 verses of the King James Version.

  • Judges 2:1

    And an angel of the Lord came up from Gilgal to Bochim, and said, I made you to go up out of Egypt, and have brought you unto the land which I sware unto your fathers; and I said, I will never break my covenant with you.

  • Judges 2:5

    And they called the name of that place Bochim: and they sacrificed there unto the Lord.