- Original: בּקק - Transliteration: Baqaq - Phonetic: baw-kah' - Definition: 1. to empty a. (Qal) 1. to empty, lay waste 2. to make void (fig.) b. (Niphal) to be emptied c. (Polel) to empty out, devastate - Origin: a primitive root - TWOT entry: 273 - Part(s) of speech: Verb - Strong's: A primitive root; to pour out that is to empty figuratively to depopulate; by analogy to spread out (as a fruitful vine): - (make) empty (out) fail X utterly make void. Total KJV Occurrences: 9 • emptied, 3 Isaiah 24:3(2); Nahum 2:2 • emptiers, 1 Nahum 2:2 • empty, 3 Isaiah 24:1; Jeremiah 51:2; Hosea 10:1 • fail, 1 Isaiah 19:3 • void, 1 Jeremiah 19:7