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The present study tracks the genealogy of the figurative-paronymic interpretation that considers אכָבָּ bākā (Psalms 84:7) a reference to tears and weeping from the Septuagint to several rabbinic Jewish sources where the term ‘ēmeq ha-bākā has been identified either as a reference to the Gehenna (Targum and Talmud), as a metaphoric denomination of the mundane Vale of tears in the liturgical poem המָוּיאֲ קמֶעֵ ןׁ שַוֹש Šōšan ‘ēmeq ayūmāh or as a figurative denomination of the Exile in Isaiah of Trani’s commentary to Psalms 84:7, as well as by two Renaissance Jewish authors, Joseph Ha-Kohen Ha-Rofe and Rabbi Shelomo Alqabeṣ. Following David Qimḥi’s interpretation of the verse, the author suggests rereading the hemistich in Psalms 84:7 in a more litteral way through the identification of אכָבָּ bākā with the mulberry tree. Qimḥi’s isolated interpretation is all the more tempting in that the Latin term bacca/bāca “berry” itself could be viewed as the borrowing of the Phoenician or Punic word bākā, parallel to Hebrew אכָבָּ bākā.

Bə-‘ēmeq ha-bākā (Psalms 84:7) interpreted as ‘Vale of tears’ in early Jewish exegesis and beyond