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# בְּלִיל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1098

**fodder** — used 3 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

fodder [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1098/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בְּלִיל: n.m. fodder [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1098/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Is 30:24 fodder (Aramaic ܒܠܝܺܠ; cf. Arabic بُلَّةٌ moisture of fresh pasture)—בְּלִיל Is 30:24; sf. בְּלִילוֹ Jb 6:5; 24:6—fodder (strictly, mixed fodder, farrago) Jb 6:5; as growing in field 24:6 cf. Is 30:24.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: fodder (3).

## In the verses

[Job 24:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.24.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.24.6/#tree)

בַּ֭שָּׂדֶה בְּלִיל֣וֹ יִקְצ֑וֹרוּ וְכֶ֖רֶם רָשָׁ֣ע יְלַקֵּֽשׁוּ׃

*Word for word:* in the field fodder his they.harvest and.\[the\] vineyard of.\[the\].wicked they.glean

*JPS 1917:* They cut his provender in the field; and they despoil the vineyard of the wicked.

[Job 6:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.6.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.6.5/#tree)

הֲיִֽנְהַק־פֶּ֥רֶא עֲלֵי־דֶ֑שֶׁא אִ֥ם יִגְעֶה־שּׁ֝֗וֹר עַל־בְּלִילֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* does it.bray? a.wild.donkey on fresh.grass or? does.it.low an.ox on fodder its

*JPS 1917:* Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1098/): 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).