Word

בָּלָק

Bâlâq · H1111 · Hebrew · proper noun · 43 occurrences

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Person

Balakfirst named in Numbers 22:241 verses

Meanings

Balak

A man, son of Zippor and king of Moab, who tried to curse and destroy the Israelites on their way to Canaan

Examples
Joshua 24:9 ‘Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, rose up and fought against Israel, and he sent messengers and summoned Balaam the son of Beor to curse you.
Judges 11:25 ‘Now then, are you any better than Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab? Did he ever contend with Israel, or did he ever fight against them?
Micah 6:5 “My people, remember now What Balak king of Moab planned And what Balaam son of Beor answered him, And what happened from Shittim to Gilgal, So that you might know the righteous acts of the LORD.”

How it’s used In 5 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Named alongside itApposition

8 occurrences in 2 groups

בֵּןson 6
מֶלֶךְking 5

What it doesIt is the subject

24 occurrences in 14 groups

אָמַרto say 8
Other words · 13 groups that occur once or twice (16) 16

What it is said to bePredicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

מֶלֶךְking 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

12 occurrences in 4 groups

אֵלto, toward 18
מִןfrom 2
עִםwith 2
לto/for 2

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

5 occurrences in 4 groups

שַׂרcommander, chief, official 2
דָּבָרword, thing, matter 1
עֶבֶדservant, slave 1
אַףanger, nose 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.

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.

Semantic domains 1 entry

Names of People003001007: This is the personal name of the king of Moab who hires Balaam to curse Israel, 'Balak the son of Zippor,' whose story runs through Numbers 22-24.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1111. Balaq בָּלָק proper name, masculine (devastator) king of Moab, ׳בּ צִמּוֺר בֶּן…

H1111. Balaq
בָּלָק proper name, masculine (devastator) king of Moab, ׳בּ צִמּוֺר בֶּן Num 22:2, Num 22:4, Num 22:7 Num 22:37t. Numbers 22-24 (all J E) + Jos 24:9 (E) Jdg 11:25; Mic 6:5.
בֵּלְאשַׁצַּר בֵּלְשַׁאצַּר, see בֵּל below בעל.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Names of People43 occurrences

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