ba.khah denotes crying in grief, distress, mourning, supplication, and intense personal emotion.

The verb consistently marks outward crying across situations of loss, mourning, fear, personal distress, and appeal: people cry over deaths and separation, in anguish before God, and while pleading or grieving over threatened disaster.

1. Crying in grief, distress, or appeal · dominant

   The supplied forms describe people crying in concrete scenes of loss and distress: in Deuteronomy 34:8 the APB renders Israel's response to Moses' death as "wept," and in Genesis 21:16 Hagar lifts her voice and cries while facing the youth's death. The verb also occurs with prayer or pleading, as in 1 Samuel 1:10, where Hannah prays and repeatedly cries, and Esther 8:3, where Esther weeps and pleads before the king. Qal finite forms, infinitives, and participles all occur within this same observable use.

   Deuteronomy 34:8Genesis 21:161 Samuel 1:10Esther 8:32 Samuel 3:32Jeremiah 31:15

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the supplied verses, the APB most often presents the action with "wept" or "weeping," sometimes alongside mourning, fasting, prayer, loud crying, or pleading. These English expressions confirm the verse-level scene rather than establishing separate lexical senses.