בְּעִי
ruin
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H1164 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. 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.
Job 1 verse
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.
The Hebrew noun בעי centers on the idea of “ruin.” With only 1 verse it sits in the long tail of Hebrew Bible vocabulary. Job dominates its distribution — 1 of 1 verses. It occurs only once, in Job 30:24. Sharing its root, it stands alongside בעה, בי and בעא. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H1164 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 →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #6,101
- by frequency
- Rank #6,101 (rank 6,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Job 1 verse 100%
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 1 distinct verse.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
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- King James Version: Grave 1×
- American Standard Version: Fall 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: A 1×, Heap 1×, In 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H1164 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H1164 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H1164 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense 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.
- ruin, heap of ruins
Word origin
Derived from בעה (bâʻâh) (H1158) — to seek.
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.
בְּעֵי I
- (v. preced.; cmp. בין)
- 1. to search, inquire, ask, examine. Targ. Jud. VI, 29 (h. text בקש); a. fr.—Ber. 2ᵇ ובעו לה מבעיא האי וכ׳ and put it as a question (not as an argument), Does this uba hash-shemesh mean &c.? (opposed to preceding וממאי דהאי וכ׳ how can it be proven that &c.). Y. Ḥall. I, 57ᵇ רבנן … בעיין the Rabbis of … asked. B. Kam. 33ᵃ בעא … מרב וכ׳ R. asked R. N.; a. v. fr.
- 2. to ask, pray, frequ. ב׳ רחמין to ask for mercy, pray. Targ. Y. Num. XII, 13; a. fr.—Ber. 8ᵃ לבעי אינש רחמי man should pray &c., v. זיבולא. Ib. 10ᵃ בְּעִי רחמי עלויהו וכ׳ pray thou for them that they may repent; a. fr.
- 3. to ask, want, desire; to require. Targ. Ex. II, 15; a. fr.—Pes. 9ᵃ ובָעֵי בדיקה and it (the house) requires searching over again. Keth. 39ᵇ לא בעינא לך I do not want thee. B. Kam. 102ᵇ לא יקרייכו בעינא וכ׳ I want neither your honor nor your disrespect; a. fr.—Pes. 2ᵃ בעו שבוחי must give praise.—אי בעית אימא, usu. איבעית אימא, v. אִיבָּעִית. [Y. Yeb. XII, 13ᵃ top בְּעֵא תתן לנו, please, give us.]
- 4. (ellipt.) to beg leave to say; to remark, assert. Y. Ber. I, 2ᵇ top. Y. Peah II, beg. 16ᵈ; a. fr.
- 1. to be searched for, to be wanted. Targ. Jer. L, 20; a. fr.
- 2. to be urged, hurried. Targ. I Sam. XXIII, 26. Targ. II Sam. IV, 4 בְּאִתְבָּעֲיוּתָהּ when she was hurried; v. בְּעַע.
- 1. to be asked. Pes. 4ᵇ, a. v. fr. אִיבָּעְיָא להו it was asked by them (the scholars), i.e. the argument came up.
- 2. to be required; it ought to. Ib. 7ᵇ יצא בו מיבעי ליה it ought to read yatsa bo (he has done his duty). Ib. 15ᵃ מדבריו מ׳ ליה it ought to be midd’barav (not middibrehem); a. fr.—B. Kam. 21ᵇ א׳ ליה לאסוקי דעתא he ought to have borne in mind; a. fr.—לא מיבעיא there is no question. לא מ׳ … אלא אפילו there is no question as to …, but even …; not only … but. Pes. 4ᵇ לא מ׳ באתרא … אלא וכ׳ not only in a place where they pay no wages for searching, but do it themselves, (is there no cause for withdrawing from the agreement,) because a man likes to perform a religious duty: but even in a place where they pay wages, (there is no cause &c.,) for a man likes &c. B. Kam. 54ᵇ לא מ׳ קאמר לא מ׳ שור וכ׳ the Mishnah states a case of ‘not only’; not only for an ox … is he responsible, but even &c.; a. v. fr.—מִיבָּעְיָא is there any question?; v. הַשְׁתָּא.
- to let burst forth, v. יְעָא a. נְבַע.
בּוּעַ
- (√בע, cmp. נבע, בץ, בט) to swell, burst forth, whence (of sound) to shout, rejoice. Targ. Is. XIV, 7 (h. text פצח). Ib. LXV, 19; a. fr.—Part. f. בְּיָעָא. Ib. 18 (Var. בִּיעָא).
בעי
- א, a) to enter into, split; b) to be empty, bare). Part. בּוֹעֶה, v. infra.
- to lay bare, destroy the crop. B. Kam. I, 1 המַבְעֶה damaging the crop (ref. to Ex. XXII, 4). Ib. 3ᵇ Rab says מבעה זה אדם the damaging force in the Mishnah means that of a human being (ransacking, searching); for we read (Is. XXI, 12) אם תבעיון בעיו if ye desire to enter &c. (where בעה refers to human action); Samuel says, מבעה זה השן the mabeh of the Mishnah refers to the tooth, i.e. to an animal’s eating up the crop, for it says (Ob. I, 6) נבעו מצפניו its hidden treasures were laid bare (made empty,—which refers to eating up). Ib. (argument against Samuel) מי קתני נִבְעָה the Mishnah does not use the Nifal (which may mean eaten up); (argument against Rab) מי קתני בּוֹעֶה the Mishnah does not use the Kal (which may refer to human action) but the Hifil “to cause damage”—through the animal.—Tosef. ib. IX, 1. e.g. Exodus 22:4
בְּעֵי II
- (v. בעי, בָּעָה)to open wide (the mouth), to yawn (of leopards). Targ. II Esth. I, 2 נמרין בעיין.
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.
Same root — word family
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Septuagint verse parallels
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