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בֶּזֶק Bezek

Every verse in which this name stands — 3 places, in canonical order, first appearance to last. These are the occurrences our own corpus tags as this name, counting every form the text writes it in, which is the number on the list.

PlaceGematria 109×3 named in TanakhFirst appearance:

A place in Palestine. The name stands three times in the Tanakh, first at Judges 1:4 and last at 1 Samuel 11:8.

Judges 1:4שופטים א:ד

וַיַּעַל יְהוּדָה וַיִּתֵּן יְהוָה אֶת־הַכְּנַעֲנִי וְהַפְּרִזִּי בְּיָדָם וַיַּכּוּם בְּבֶזֶק עֲשֶׂרֶת אֲלָפִים אִֽישׁ

And Judah went up; and the LORD delivered the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand; and they smote of them in Bezek ten thousand men.

Judges 1:5שופטים א:ה

וַֽיִּמְצְאוּ אֶת־אֲדֹנִי בֶזֶק בְּבֶזֶק וַיִּֽלָּחֲמוּ בּוֹ וַיַּכּוּ אֶת־הַֽכְּנַעֲנִי וְאֶת־הַפְּרִזִּֽי

And they found Adoni-bezek in Bezek; and they fought against him, and they smote the Canaanites and the Perizzites.

1 Samuel 11:8שמואל א יא:ח

וַֽיִּפְקְדֵם בְּבָזֶק וַיִּהְיוּ בְנֵֽי־יִשְׂרָאֵל שְׁלֹשׁ מֵאוֹת אֶלֶף וְאִישׁ יְהוּדָה שְׁלֹשִׁים אָֽלֶף

And he numbered them in Bezek; and the children of Israel were three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty thousand.

Quick answers

What is the gematria of Bezek?

Bezek — בזק in Hebrew — has a gematria of 109 in the standard method.

How many times is Bezek named in the Tanakh?

3 times, first at Judges 1:4.

A spelling is not a name. The written word בבזק stands 3 times in the corpus, which is a different question and often a different number: the same letters can spell another name or an ordinary word, and a name written with a particle attached is a word that search never returns. It is here, as itself.

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