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בּוּךְ

«בּוּךְ» in the Tanakh dictionary: perplex — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

Used: 3 times · Key: 943 · BDB: בּוּךְ

Glosses

[are].wandering.in.confusion (1); it.was.in.confusion (1); they.have.wandered.in.confusion (1)

Meaning (OSHB)

perplex tree →

Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. perplex, confuse tree →

The whole BDB entry

vb. perplex, confuse (? Arabic بَاكَ stir up (water of spring) the be disturbed, confused; cf. Assyrian bâku, lead captive, orig. lead astray? COT Ezr 4:2)—only Pf. 3 fs. נָב֫וֹכָה Est 3:15; 3 mpl. נָבֹ֫כוּ Jo 1:18, Pt. pl. נְבֻכִים Ex 14:3;—be confused, in confusion (of a city) Est 3:15; = wander aimlessly (of Isr.) Ex 14:3; so of cattle Jo 1:18 (Merx proposes בָּכוּ, after 𝔊 ἔκλαυσαν, but בכה not elsewhere of cattle).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

Trees and pragmatics

Every English meaning of «בּוּךְ» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

In the verses

Exodus 14:3

וְאָמַ֤ר פַּרְעֹה֙ לִבְנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל נְבֻכִ֥ים הֵ֖ם בָּאָ֑רֶץ סָגַ֥ר עֲלֵיהֶ֖ם הַמִּדְבָּֽר׃

Word for word: and he.will.say Pharaoh of the.people of.Israel [are].wandering.in.confusion they in the land it.has.shut on them the wilderness

JPS 1917: And Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel: They are entangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut them in.

Joel 1:18

מַה־נֶּאֶנְחָ֣ה בְהֵמָ֗ה נָבֹ֙כוּ֙ עֶדְרֵ֣י בָקָ֔ר כִּ֛י אֵ֥ין מִרְעֶ֖ה לָהֶ֑ם גַּם־עֶדְרֵ֥י הַצֹּ֖אן נֶאְשָֽׁמוּ׃

Word for word: how! it.has.groaned [the].livestock they.have.wandered.in.confusion [the].herds of.cattle (dm) there.[is].not pasture for them also the.flocks of.(the) sheep they.have.suffered

JPS 1917: How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.

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