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# בָּלַג

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1082

**gleam** — used 4 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

gleam [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1082/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בָּלַג: vb. gleam, smile [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1082/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. gleam, smile (Arabic بَلِجَ )—only Impf. 1 s. c. וְ subord. וְאַבְלִ֫יגָה Jb 9:27 + 2 times; Pt. מַבְלִיג Am 5:9;— shew a smile, look cheerful ψ 39:14 Jb 9:27; 10:20. cause to burst or flash המב׳ שֹׁד על־עָ֑ז Am 5:9 (cf. Ew St).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: that I may be cheerful (2); I will be cheerful (1); who\] causes to flash (1).

## In the verses

[Amos 5:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/AMO.5.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/AMO.5.9/#tree)

הַמַּבְלִ֥יג שֹׁ֖ד עַל־עָ֑ז וְשֹׁ֖ד עַל־מִבְצָ֥ר יָבֽוֹא׃

*Word for word:* the.\[one who\].causes.to.flash devastation on \[the\].strong and devastation on a.fortress it.will.come

*JPS 1917:* That causeth destruction to flash upon the strong, so that destruction cometh upon the fortress.

[Job 9:27](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.9.27/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.9.27/#tree)

אִם־אָ֭מְרִי אֶשְׁכְּחָ֣ה שִׂיחִ֑י אֶעֶזְבָ֖ה פָנַ֣י וְאַבְלִֽיגָה׃

*Word for word:* if my.saying \[is\] I.will.forget complaint my I.will.let.loose face my and I.will.be.cheerful

*JPS 1917:* If I say: 'I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad countenance, and be of good cheer',

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1082.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1082/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).