1) to swallow down, swallow up, engulf, eat up 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to swallow down 1a2) to swallow up, engulf 1b) (Niphal) to be swallowed up 1c) (Piel) 1c1) to swallow 1c2) to swallow up, engulf 1c3) squandering (fig.) 1d) (Pual) to be swallowed up 1e) (Hithpael) to be ended
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H1104 — בָּלַע
ba.la · to swallow up · Hebrew/Aramaic
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Genesis 41:7 · וַתִּבְלַ֙עְנָה֙The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven healthy and full ears. Pharaoh awoke, and behold, it was a dream.Genesis 41:24 · וַתִּבְלַ֙עְןָ֙The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven good heads of grain. I told it to the magicians, but there was no one who could explain it to me.”Exodus 7:12 · וַיִּבְלַ֥עFor they each cast down their rods, and they became serpents: but Aaron’s rod swallowed up their rods.Exodus 15:12 · תִּבְלָעֵ֖מוֹYou stretched out your right hand. The earth swallowed them.Numbers 4:20 · כְּבַלַּ֥עbut they shall not go in to see the sanctuary even for a moment, lest they die.”Numbers 16:30 · וּבָלְעָ֤הBut if Yahweh make a new thing, and the ground open its mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain to them, and they go down alive into Sheol; then you shall understand that these men have despised Yahweh.”Numbers 16:32 · וַתִּבְלַ֥עand the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and all the men who appertained to Korah, and all their goods.Numbers 16:34 · תִּבְלָעֵ֖נוּAll Israel that were around them fled at their cry; for they said, “Lest the earth swallow us up!”Numbers 26:10 · וַתִּבְלַ֥עand the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korah, when that company died; what time the fire devoured two hundred fifty men, and they became a sign.Deuteronomy 11:6 · וַתִּבְלָעֵ֥םand what he did to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben; how the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and their tents, and every living thing that followed them, in the midst of all Israel:2 Samuel 17:16 · יְבֻלַּ֣עNow therefore send quickly, and tell David, saying, ‘Don’t lodge this night at the fords of the wilderness, but by all means pass over; lest the king be swallowed up, and all the people who are with him.’”2 Samuel 20:19 · תְבַלַּ֖עI am among those who are peaceable and faithful in Israel. You seek to destroy a city and a mother in Israel. Why will you swallow up the inheritance of Yahweh?”2 Samuel 20:20 · אֲבַלַּ֖עJoab answered, “Far be it, far be it from me, that I should swallow up or destroy.Job 2:3 · לְבַלְּע֥וֹYahweh said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? For there is none like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil. He still maintains his integrity, although you incited me against him, to ruin him without cause.”Job 7:19 · בִּלְעִ֥יHow long will you not look away from me, nor leave me alone until I swallow down my spittle?Job 8:18 · יְבַלְּעֶ֥נּוּIf he is destroyed from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, ‘I have not seen you.’Job 10:8 · וַֽתְּבַלְּעֵֽנִי׃“‘Your hands have framed me and fashioned me altogether, yet you destroy me.Job 20:15 · בָּ֭לַעHe has swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again. God will cast them out of his belly.Job 20:18 · יִבְלָ֑עThat for which he labored he shall restore, and shall not swallow it down. According to the substance that he has gotten, he shall not rejoice.Job 37:20 · יְבֻלָּֽע׃Shall it be told him that I would speak? Or should a man wish that he were swallowed up?Psalm 21:9 · יְבַלְּעֵ֑םYou will make them as a fiery furnace in the time of your anger. Yahweh will swallow them up in his wrath. The fire shall devour them.Psalm 35:25 · בִּֽלַּעֲנֽוּהוּ׃Don’t let them say in their heart, “Aha! That’s the way we want it!” Don’t let them say, “We have swallowed him up!”Psalm 55:9 · בַּלַּ֣עConfuse them, Lord, and confound their language, for I have seen violence and strife in the city.Psalm 69:15 · תִּבְלָעֵ֣נִיDon’t let the flood waters overwhelm me, neither let the deep swallow me up. Don’t let the pit shut its mouth on me.Psalm 106:17 · וַתִּבְלַ֣עThe earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram.Psalm 107:27 · תִּתְבַּלָּֽע׃They reel back and forth, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits’ end.Psalm 124:3 · בְּלָע֑וּנוּthen they would have swallowed us up alive, when their wrath was kindled against us;Proverbs 1:12 · נִ֭בְלָעֵםlet’s swallow them up alive like Sheol, and whole, like those who go down into the pit.Proverbs 19:28 · יְבַלַּע־A corrupt witness mocks justice, and the mouth of the wicked gulps down iniquity.Proverbs 21:20 · יְבַלְּעֶֽנּוּ׃There is precious treasure and oil in the dwelling of the wise; but a foolish man swallows it up.Ecclesiastes 10:12 · תְּבַלְּעֶֽנּוּ׃The words of a wise man’s mouth are gracious; but a fool is swallowed by his own lips.Isaiah 3:12 · בִּלֵּֽעוּ׃ סAs for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. My people, those who lead you cause you to err, and destroy the way of your paths.Isaiah 9:16 · מְבֻלָּעִֽים׃For those who lead this people lead them astray; and those who are led by them are destroyed.Isaiah 19:3 · אֲבַלֵּ֑עַThe spirit of Egypt will fail in its midst. I will destroy its counsel. They will seek the idols, the charmers, those who have familiar spirits, and the wizards.Isaiah 25:7 · וּבִלַּע֙He will destroy in this mountain the surface of the covering that covers all peoples, and the veil that is spread over all nations.Isaiah 25:8 · בִּלַּ֤עHe has swallowed up death forever! The Lord Yahweh will wipe away tears from off all faces. He will take the reproach of his people away from off all the earth, for Yahweh has spoken it.Isaiah 28:4 · יִבְלָעֶֽנָּה׃ סThe fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fertile valley, shall be like the first-ripe fig before the summer; which someone picks and eats as soon as he sees it.Isaiah 28:7 · נִבְלְע֣וּThey also reel with wine, and stagger with strong drink. The priest and the prophet reel with strong drink. They are swallowed up by wine. They stagger with strong drink. They err in vision. They stumble in judgment.Isaiah 49:19 · מְבַלְּעָֽיִךְ׃“For, as for your waste and your desolate places, and your land that has been destroyed, surely now you shall be too small for the inhabitants, and those who swallowed you up shall be far away.Jeremiah 51:34 · בְּלָעַ֙נִי֙Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me, he has crushed me, he has made me an empty vessel, he has, like a monster, swallowed me up, he has filled his maw with my delicacies; he has cast me out.Lamentations 2:2 · בִּלַּ֨עThe Lord has swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and has not pitied: He has thrown down in his wrath the strongholds of the daughter of Judah; He has brought them down to the ground; he has profaned the kingdom and its princes.Lamentations 2:5 · בִּלַּ֣ע · בִּלַּע֙The Lord has become as an enemy, he has swallowed up Israel; He has swallowed up all her palaces, he has destroyed his strongholds; He has multiplied in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.Lamentations 2:8 · מִבַּלֵּ֑עַYahweh has purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion; He has stretched out the line, he has not withdrawn his hand from destroying; He has made the rampart and wall to lament; they languish together.Lamentations 2:16 · בִּלָּ֑עְנוּAll your enemies have opened their mouth wide against you; They hiss and gnash the teeth; they say, We have swallowed her up; Certainly this is the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen it.Hosea 8:7 · יִבְלָעֻֽהוּ׃For they sow the wind, and they will reap the whirlwind. He has no standing grain. The stalk will yield no head. If it does yield, strangers will swallow it up.Hosea 8:8 · נִבְלַ֖עIsrael is swallowed up. Now they are among the nations like a worthless thing.Jonah 1:17 · לִבְלֹ֖עַYahweh prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah, and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.Habakkuk 1:13 · בְּבַלַּ֥עYou who have purer eyes than to see evil, and who cannot look on perversity, why do you tolerate those who deal treacherously, and keep silent when the wicked swallows up the man who is more righteous than he,