בָּעַט
to kick
‘to kick’ is one of 4 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Stem
- Qal
- The basic, simple active stem — the plain form of the verb (“he wrote”).
Form
- Sequential Imperfect
- An imperfect with prefixed waw — the standard past-narrative form (waw-consecutive imperfect).
- Imperfect
- An incomplete, ongoing, or future action (“he will / would write”).
Person
- 3rd Person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 2nd Person
- The one addressed (“you”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Every verse where H1163 appears in the Book of 1 Samuel — 1 distinct verse. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
1 Samuel
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
בעט — transliterated bâʻaṭ — is a Hebrew verb carrying the sense “to kick.” A scarce word — 2 verses in all of the Hebrew Bible. More than half of its appearances fall in Deuteronomy. It first appears in Deuteronomy 32:15. Its lexical range runs to 4 senses. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H1163 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #4,807
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,807 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Deuteronomy 1 verse 50%
- 1 Samuel 1 verse 50%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 2 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 1 verse · 50%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 1 verse · 50%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Kicked 1×, Wherefore kick 1×
- American Standard Version: Kicked 1×, Wherefore kick 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Do you kick at 1×, Kicked 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Do you kick 1×, Kicked 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H1163 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H1163 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H1163 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H1163 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 4 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- to kick, kick at
(Qal)
- to kick
- to kick at
- to desire (figuratively)
Word origin
Origin: a primitive root
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
בָּעַט I
- (√בע, v. בוע) to swell, bulge. Midd. III, 8 שלא יִבְעֲטוּ marg. vers. (or יִבָּעֲטוּ Nif.; text יבעט sing.) that the walls should not bulge.
בָּעַט II
- to trample, strike, kick. Y. Yoma VIII, 45ᵇ top בְּעָטָתוֹ פרדה a mule kicked him. Ex. R. s. 30 ב׳ בפילקי knocked against the prison door (burst it open). Ab. Zar. IV, 8 גת בְּעוּטָה a wine press packed with stamped grapes.—Trnsf. (with ב) to resist, reject. Sabb. 104ᵃ, v. אח"ס.
- same. B. Kam. II, 1. היתה מְבָעֶטֶת if the animal kicked. Ber. 32ᵃ; a. e.—Trnsf. to kick against, rebel, be contumacious. Sot. 22ᵃ. Y. Ber. IX, 14ᵇ bot., a. e. מְבָעֵט בייסורין bearing suffering with contumacy (instead of showing repentance). Pesik. R. s. 47; Yalk. Job 908 התחיל מב׳ (sub. בייסורין) began to be contumacious (challenging the Lord).
בְּעַט
- Targ. Hos. IV, 16; a. e.—Y. Sabb. VII, 11ᵃ bot.; Y. Shek. III, 47ᶜ ב׳ ביה rejected his authority.
- to tread (grapes). Targ. Lam. I, 15.
- to be trodden. Targ. Joel IV, 13; Targ. Is. LXIII, 3; a. e.
עֵט
- (= b. h. עֵט; עטט, cmp. חטט) style, pencil. Targ. Jer. XVII, 1.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms H1163 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that stem’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| וַ/יִּבְעָ֔ט | Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular | Deuteronomy 32:15 | 1 |
| תִבְעֲט֗וּ | Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 2nd Person, Masculine, Plural | 1 Samuel 2:29 | 1 |
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 2 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 2 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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