בֹּקֶר
bôqer · bo'-ker
properly, dawn (as the break of day); generally, morning
Lexicon
Derivation: from H1239 (בָּקַר);
properly, dawn (as the break of day); generally, morning
- properly, dawn (as the break of day)
- generally, morning
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: ([phrase]) day, early, morning, morrow.
Letters
- בBet2
Picture: floor plan of a tent or house
- Concrete
- house · tent · dwelling
- Extended
- family · household · what is inside · in
- קQof100
Picture: the back of the head, or the sun on the horizon
- Concrete
- back of the head · rising sun · circle
- Extended
- what is behind · the last · a cycle · to come around again
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the house, what is within › what comes behind, the returning cycle › the head, the highest
The house, what is within of what comes behind, the returning cycle of the head, the highest.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of בֹּקֶר above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
214 occurrences · 214 OT · 0 NT · 76 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- in the morning68 · 43%
- until the morning12 · 8%
- every morning9 · 6%
- morning8 · 5%
- and the morning7 · 4%
- and in the morning7 · 4%
- unto the morning5 · 3%
- and it came to pass in the morning5 · 3%
- of the morning5 · 3%
- the morning4 · 3%
- when the morning3 · 2%
- from the morning3 · 2%
- for the morning3 · 2%
- of it until the morning2 · 1%
- till the morning2 · 1%
- and it came to pass, that in the morning2 · 1%
- by morning2 · 1%
- from morning2 · 1%
- by the morning2 · 1%
- and to morrow2 · 1%
- it every morning1 · 1%
- of it till the morning1 · 1%
- and when it was morning1 · 1%
- as soon as the morning1 · 1%
- unto them in the morning1 · 1%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.