Baca

In Bible versions:

Baca: AVS TEV

a valley; probably figurative: weeping

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a mulberry-tree

Hebrew

Strongs #01056: akb Baka'

Baca = "weeping"

1) a valley in Palestine

1056 Baka' baw-kaw'

from 1058, weeping; Baca, a valley in Palestine:-Baca.
see HEBREW for 01058

Baca [NAVE]

BACA, valley of, Psa. 84:6.

BACA [SMITH]

(weeping), The Valley of, A valley in Palestine, through which the exiled Psalmist sees in vision the pilgrims passing in their march towards the sanctuary of Jehovah at Zion. (Psalms 84:6) That it was a real locality is most probable from the use of the definite article before the name. The rendering of the Targum is Gehenna, i.e. the Ge-Hinnom or ravine below Mount Zion. This locality agrees well with the mention of became (Authorized Version "mulberry") trees in (2 Samuel 5:23)

BACA [ISBE]

BACA - ba'-ka bakha': In the King James Version in Ps 84:6, where the Revised Version (British and American) has "the valley of Weeping," with a marginal variant which is best put in the form, "the valley of the balsam-trees." The word is elsewhere used only in the duplicated account of one of David's battles (2 Sam 5:23,24; 1 Ch 14:14,15). There the translation is "the mulberry trees," with "the balsam-trees" in the margin in the Revised Version (British and American). Conjecturally the word is, by variant spelling, of the stem which denotes weeping; the tree is called "weeper" from some habit of the trickling of its gum or of the moisture on it; the valley of weeping is not a geographical locality, but a picturesque expression for the experiences of those whose strength is in Yahweh, and who through His grace find their sorrows changed into blessings.

Willis J. Beecher