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בִּרְשַׁע

Birshaʻ · H1306 · Hebrew · proper noun · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. Birsha

    Birsha, king of Gomorrah in the time of Abraham

    Examples

    Genesis 14:2 that they made war with Bera king of Sodom, and with Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, and Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar).

How it’s used In 2 roles

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Semantic domains 1 entry
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בִּרְשַׁע is the proper name of the king of Gomorrah named in Genesis 14:2 alongside Bera and the other kings of the plain.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1306. Birsha בִּרְשַׁע proper name, masculine (√ & meaning unknown) king of Gomorrha Gen…
H1306. Birsha
בִּרְשַׁע proper name, masculine (√ & meaning unknown) king of Gomorrha Gen 14:2.
בֵּר֫וֺתָה בֵּרֹתִי, בֵּרֹתַי, see below בארות, p. 92.
בשׂם (have a sweet odour, compare Aramaic בְּסִים, be sweet, pleasant, Pa`el to delight, בַּסִּימָא, sweet; Palmyrene בשימא (משחא) VogJAs 1883, Août. Sept. 153 1. 12, 155 1. 16, 18, 20 etc. spiced (oil), compare ReckendZMG 1888, 403; Assyrian bašâmu, Pa`el make fine, beautiful COTGloss).
בֶּ֫שֶׂם, [בָּשָׂם] see בּשֶֹׁם. below

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

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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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