Definition

a gap or leak (in a building or a ship)

Etymology

from H918 (בָּדַק);

Word family

• בָּדַק bâdaq

How the KJV renders it

• breach
• calker

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.