בְּלָא
bᵉlâʼ · H1080 · Aramaic · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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to cause to waste away, to use up
Action by which someone causes objects to gradually lose their quality and strength
ExamplesDaniel 7:25 ‘And he will speak against the Most High and wear down the saints of the Highest One, and he will intend to make alterations in times and in law; and they will be handed over to him for a time, times, and half a time.
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- Not stated: he, she or it 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- לto/for+ קַדִּישׁholy, saint 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- כָּלָה kâlâh · H3615 · to be finished, to be completed, to come to an end
- Hebrew verb meaning 'to consume, come to an end,' frequently used for wearing out or exhausting resources, overlapping with בְּלָא in the sense of deterioration or coming to an end through use
Contrasting words 1 word
- חָדַשׁ châdash · H2318 · to repair, to restore, to replace
- Hebrew verb meaning 'to renew, make new,' the lexical opposite of 'wear out,' expressing restoration rather than deterioration
In the other Testament 1 word
- παλαιόω palaióō · G3822 · to make old, to make out of date, to become old
- Greek verb meaning 'to make old, wear out,' the standard LXX rendering for Hebrew terms denoting deterioration through age or use, matching the semantic domain of בְּלָא
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Impact002001001024
- Daniel 7:25 recounts that the little horn “will speak against the Most High and wear down the saints of the Highest One.”
- Non-Exist002002002006
- The same verse, Daniel 7:25, also shows this word's sense of gradual attrition toward ceasing: the horn's persecution is described as intending to “wear down” the saints, a gradual attrition toward their being extinguished as a recognized people, not merely struck once.
Word family 13 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1080. bela [בְּלַא] verb Pa`el wear away, out (Biblical Hebrew בלה); —…
[בְּלַא] verb Pa`el wear away, out (Biblical Hebrew בלה); — Imperfect3masculine singular יְבַּלֵּא Dan 7:25, figurative for harass continually (accusative of person).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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