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בְּעוֹר

Bᵉʻôwr · H1160 · Hebrew · proper noun · 10 occurrences

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This name belongs to 2 people

Meanings

  1. Beor

    A man who was the father of Bela the Edomite

    Examples

    Genesis 36:32 Bela the son of Beor reigned in Edom, and the name of his city was Dinhabah.

    1 Chronicles 1:43 Now these are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom before any king from the sons of Israel reigned. Bela was the son of Beor, and the name of his city was Dinhabah.

  2. Beor

    A man who was the father of Balaam

    Examples

    Numbers 22:5 So he sent messengers to Balaam the son of Beor, at Pethor, which is near the Euphrates River, in the land of the sons of his people, to call for him, saying, “Behold, a people came out of Egypt; behold, they have covered the surface of the land, and they are living opposite me.

    Numbers 24:3 Then he took up his discourse and said, “The declaration of Balaam the son of Beor, And the declaration of the man whose eye is opened;

    Numbers 24:15 Then he took up his discourse and said, “The declaration of Balaam the son of Beor, And the declaration of the man whose eye is opened,

How it’s used In 2 roles

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Named alongside itApposition

2 occurrences in 1 groups

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

8 occurrences in 1 groups

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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Semantic domains 1 entry
Names of People003001007
בְּעוֹר, "Beor," names two distinct figures: the father of the Edomite king Bela (Genesis 36:32) and the father of the seer Balaam (Numbers 22:5), functioning in both cases purely as a personal name.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1160. Beor בְּעוֺר proper name, masculine (a burning; ᵑ7 torch) — 1 father of Balaam Num…
H1160. Beor
בְּעוֺר proper name, masculine (a burning; ᵑ7 torch) —
1 father of Balaam Num 22:5; Num 31:8; Deu 23:5; Jos 13:22; Jos 24:9; Mic 6:5; בְּעֹר Num 24:3, Num 24:15 (ב ׳בנו).
2 father of בֶּלַע, a king of Edom Gen 36:32 = 1Ch 1:43.

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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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

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