בֶּלַע
belaʻ · H1105 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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something swallowed
Something taken into someone's stomach by being drawn through his/her throat and esophagus
ExamplesJeremiah 51:44 “I will punish Bel in Babylon, And I will make what he has swallowed come out of his mouth; And the nations will no longer stream toward him. Even the wall of Babylon has fallen down!
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swallowing, destroying
Causative action by which humans cause other humans to be removed from existence in a violent way, as if by swallowing up
ExamplesPsalm 52:4 You love all words that devour, You deceitful tongue.
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
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הוּhis 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- יָצָאto go out 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- דָּבָרword, thing, matter 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
- עָלַע ʻâlaʻ · H5966 · to gulp
- Both words denote ingestion, devouring or swallowing on one side and sucking up on the other, and could substitute for each other in contexts of consuming or taking something in.
Semantic domains 4 entries
- Ingest002001001025
- As a noun from the same root as בָּלַע (bâlaʻ, H1104), this word denotes the act or thing swallowed, as the psalmist speaks 'of swallowing' in Psalm 52:4-6, and Jeremiah pictures Bel forced to disgorge 'what he has swallowed' in Jeremiah 51:44, fitting this domain's core sense of ingestion.
- Non-Exist002002002006
- בֶּלַע denotes a devouring or a thing swallowed up, as at Jeremiah 51:44 — "I will make what he has swallowed come out of his mouth" — an image of Babylon's forced disgorging of what it had consumed. This entry carries no independent "Non-Exist" sense of its own beyond the ordinary swallowing/devouring image; the domain code here is bundle-shared with an unrelated entry rather than reflecting any sense of nonexistence in this word.
- Names of Locations003001010
- This code is inherited from the shared root's place-name homograph (Bela, the city also called Zoar, בֶּלַע (Belaʻ, H1106)) rather than describing the abstract 'thing swallowed' sense drafted here.
- Names of People003001007
- This code is likewise inherited from the shared root's personal-name homograph (Bela, בֶּלַע (Belaʻ, H1106)) rather than describing this entry's own sense.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1105. bela I. בֶּ֫לַע noun [masculine] swallowing, devouring, thing swallowed. 1…
I. בֶּ֫לַע noun [masculine] swallowing, devouring, thing swallowed.
1 swallowing = destruction, דִּבְרֵיבָֿ֑לַע Psa 52:6 devouring words (|| מִרְמָה לְשׁוֺן).
2 thing swallowed בִּלְעוֺ, Jer 51:44 מִמִּיו אתבֿ ׳וְהֹצֵאתִי and I will bring forth that which he hath swallowed out of his mouth.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 4 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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