# בָּקַע (baqa)

Israeli respelling: ba-qa. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H1234. 50 Old Testament occurrences.

to cleave; generally, to rend, break, rip or open

King James renderings: 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.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/baqa-h1234

## Occurrences

- [Genesis 7:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/7/11) — 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…
- [Genesis 22:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/22/3) — 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 woo…
- [Exodus 14:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/14/16) — 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…
- [Exodus 14:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/14/21) — 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 se…
- [Numbers 16:31](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/16/31) — 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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/9/4) — 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 re…
- [Joshua 9:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/9/13) — 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 rea…
- [Judges 15:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/15/19) — 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 revi…
- [1 Samuel 6:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/6/14) — 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 c…
- [2 Samuel 23:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/23/16) — 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…
- [1 Kings 1:40](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/1/40) — 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 o…
- [2 Kings 2:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/2/24) — 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 ta…
- [2 Kings 3:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/3/26) — 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 e…
- [2 Kings 8:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/8/12) — 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…
- [2 Kings 15:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/15/16) — Then Menahem smote Tiphsah, and all that were therein, and the coasts thereof from Tirzah: because they opened not to him, therefore he smo…
- [2 Kings 25:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/25/4) — 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: (…
- [1 Chronicles 11:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/11/18) — 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, an…
- [2 Chronicles 21:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/21/17) — 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, a…
- [2 Chronicles 25:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/25/12) — 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 do…
- [2 Chronicles 32:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/32/1) — After these things, and the establishment thereof, Sennacherib king of Assyria came, and entered into Judah, and encamped against the fence…
- [Nehemiah 9:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/9/11) — 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 threw…
- [Job 26:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/26/8) — He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them.
- [Job 28:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/28/10) — He cutteth out rivers among the rocks; and his eye seeth every precious thing.
- [Job 32:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/32/19) — Behold, my belly is as wine which hath no vent; it is ready to burst like new bottles.
- [Psalms 74:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/74/15) — Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up mighty rivers.
- [Psalms 78:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/78/13) — He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as an heap.
- [Psalms 78:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/78/15) — He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the great depths.
- [Psalms 141:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/141/7) — Our bones are scattered at the grave’s mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth.
- [Proverbs 3:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/3/20) — By his knowledge the depths are broken up, and the clouds drop down the dew.
- [Ecclesiastes 10:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/10/9) — Whoso removeth stones shall be hurt therewith; and he that cleaveth wood shall be endangered thereby.
- [Isaiah 7:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/7/6) — 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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/34/15) — 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…
- [Isaiah 35:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/35/6) — 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…
- [Isaiah 48:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/48/21) — 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,…
- [Isaiah 58:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/58/8) — Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee;…
- [Isaiah 59:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/59/5) — 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…
- [Isaiah 63:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/63/12) — 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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/39/2) — 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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/52/7) — 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 wa…
- [Ezekiel 13:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/13/11) — Say unto them which daub it with untempered morter, that it shall fall: there shall be an overflowing shower; and ye, O great hailstones, s…
- [Ezekiel 13:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/13/13) — 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 ange…
- [Ezekiel 26:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/26/10) — 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…
- [Ezekiel 29:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/29/7) — 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 m…
- [Ezekiel 30:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/30/16) — 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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hosea/13/8) — 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:…
- [Hosea 13:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hosea/13/16) — Samaria shall become desolate; for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces…
- [Amos 1:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/amos/1/13) — Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of the children of Ammon, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because…
- [Micah 1:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/micah/1/4) — 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…
- [Habakkuk 3:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/habakkuk/3/9) — 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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zechariah/14/4) — 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…