בְּלִיל
bᵉlîyl · H1098 · Hebrew · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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fodder
A mixture consisting of entire plants, including leaves, stalks and grain, served as food for domestic animals
ExamplesJob 6:5 “Does the wild donkey bray over his grass, Or does the ox low over his feed?
Job 24:6 “They harvest their feed in the field And glean the vineyard of the wicked.
Isaiah 30:24 Also the oxen and the donkeys that work the ground will eat seasoned feed, which has been winnowed with shovel and pitchfork.
How it’s used In 4 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
3 occurrences in 2 groups
- הוּhis 2
- חָמִיץsalted, seasoned 1
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- זָרָהto scatter, to disperse 1
What is done to itIt is the object
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- אָכַלto eat, to devour 1
- קָצַרto be short 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- עַלon, upon, over, against 2
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
- מִסְפּוֹא miçpôwʼ · H4554 · fodder
- Hebrew term for animal fodder/provender, used interchangeably in contexts where livestock are fed. Both denote mixed feed given to animals.
- תֶּבֶן teben · H8401 · straw
- Straw used as animal fodder or mixed with grain as feed. Overlaps with בְּלִיל in the semantic domain of livestock feed materials.
In the other Testament 1 word
- χόρτος chórtos · G5528 · small plants, grass, sprout
- Greek term for fodder/grass used as animal feed, the standard LXX rendering for mixed grain/fodder terminology. Translational equivalent for the Hebrew fodder/provender concept.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Food001003001003
- The word denotes fodder or provender for animals, as the wild donkey does not 'bray over his grass' nor the ox 'low over his feed' in Job 6:5, fitting this domain's category for food, here specifically animal feed.
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1098. belil בְּלִיל noun masculineIsa 30:24 fodder (Aramaic ; compare Arabic moisture of…
בְּלִיל noun masculineIsa 30:24 fodder (Aramaic ; compare Arabic moisture of fresh pasture) — בְּלִיל Isa 30:24; suffix בְּלִילוֺ Job 6:5; Job 24:6 — fodder (strictly, mixed fodder, farrago) Job 6:5; as growing in field Job 24:6 compare Isa 30:24.
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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