bu.qah denotes the emptiness evoked in a question about a lion’s former habitation.

The lone attestation presents bu.qah as emptiness in the context of a questioning search for the lions’ habitation and pasture.

1. Emptiness of a former lion habitation · dominant

   In Nahum 2:11, the feminine singular absolute form occurs within the question about where the lions’ habitation and pasture are; the APB renders the verse as a search for that habitation and describes the lion and its whelp there.

   Nahum 2:11

In the Anselm Project Bible: In Nahum 2:11, the APB frames the clause as a question, “Where is the habitation of lions and the pasture for lions”; Its specific rendering of the term cannot be isolated with certainty.