BIBLE DICTIONARY + WORD STUDY
How to read this: there is rarely one magic “true meaning” hidden behind an English word. A lexicon records a word’s semantic range. The intended meaning is narrowed by grammar, sentence, author, historical usage and context.
HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H1183
be.al.yah — Bealiah
A man living at the time of Divided Monarchy, only mentioned at 1Ch.12.5 § Bealiah = "Jehovah is master" a Benjamite who went over to David at Ziklag and was one of David's mighty warriors
1 tagged verse occurrence · see every occurrence →Whose Lord is Jehovah, a Benjamite, one of David’s thirty heroes of the sling and bow (1 Chr. 12:5).
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.
