Strong's Hebrew Concordance

H1066: בֹּכִים

Bôkîym · pronounced bo-keem' · “Bochim”

Definition

Bo-kim, a place in Palestine

KJV translates it as: Bochim.

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

Extended definition

Bochim = "weeping"
a place near Gilgal (or Bethel), where sons of Israel wept
Another name of bet-el (בֵּֽיתְ־אֵל "Bethel" H1008G)

Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).

How H1066 is translated

  • bokim ×2

Bible verses with H1066 (Bôkîym)

Bôkîym appears in 2 verses.

  • 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.