בָּלַהּ
bâlahh · H1089 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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to make afraid
Action by which someone instills fear in someone else in order to deter him/her from his/her course of action
ExamplesEzra 4:4 Then the people of the land discouraged the people of Judah, and frightened them from building,
How it’s used In 3 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 (participle) 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הֶםthem 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- לto/for+ בָּנָהto build, to rebuild, to establish 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 2 words
- עָכַר ʻâkar · H5916 · trouble, to cause trouble for (someone else)
- Hebrew verb meaning 'to trouble, bring disaster upon'; distinct from בָּלַהּ but semantically parallel as both denote causing trouble or distress. Not a cognate; genuinely interchangeable in contexts of bringing trouble.
- רָגַז râgaz · H7264 · to tremble, to shake, to quake
- Hebrew verb meaning 'to tremble, quake, be agitated or troubled'; overlaps semantically with בָּלַהּ in expressing emotional or physical disturbance, though רָגַז emphasizes trembling/quaking.
In the other Testament 2 words
- ταράσσω tarássō · G5015 · to cause to move, to stir up, to cause great mental distress
- Greek equivalent for the Hebrew verb 'to trouble'; ταράσσω is a standard Greek translation for verbs denoting disturbance, agitation, or causing trouble, and would be a natural translation-equivalent for בָּלַהּ in a context where someone or something is troubled or disturbed.
- θροέω throéō · G2360 · to be startled
- Greek verb meaning 'to trouble, alarm, frighten,' semantically overlapping with בָּלַהּ in the domain of causing distress or fear; used in NT contexts of being troubled or alarmed.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Afraid002001002001
- The verb describes causing fear or discouragement, as the people of the land 'discouraged... and frightened' the returning exiles from building in Ezra 4:4, fitting this domain's sense of fear induced in others.
Word family 6 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1089. balah [בָּלַהּ] verb trouble (Aramaic , compare Arabic be weak in intellect; see…
[בָּלַהּ] verb trouble (Aramaic , compare Arabic be weak in intellect; see also בהל — only
Pi`el Participle לִבְנוֺת אותם מְבַלֲהִים Kt (Qr מְבַהֲלִים needless) Ezr 4:4 troubled them in building.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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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