בֶּדֶק
bedeq · beh'-dek
a gap or leak (in a building or a ship)
Lexicon
Derivation: from H918 (בָּדַק);
a gap or leak (in a building or a ship)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: breach, [phrase] calker.
Letters
- בBet2
Picture: floor plan of a tent or house
- Concrete
- house · tent · dwelling
- Extended
- family · household · what is inside · in
- דDalet4
Picture: tent door hanging down
- Concrete
- door · curtain · entrance
- Extended
- a way in or out · moving back and forth · a path · hanging
- 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
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the house, what is within › the doorway, the way in › what comes behind, the returning cycle
The house, what is within of the doorway, the way in of what comes behind, the returning cycle.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of בֶּדֶק 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
10 occurrences · 10 OT · 0 NT · 6 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- the breaches5 · 50%
- wheresoever any breach1 · 10%
- ye not the breaches1 · 10%
- it for the breaches1 · 10%
- men thereof were in thee thy calkers1 · 10%
- thy calkers1 · 10%
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.