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# בָּלַל

Biblical Hebrew

**to give provender** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

to give provender [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/lemma_3a_5d1_5b8_5bc_5dc_5b7_5dc/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בָּלַל²: vb. denom. to give provender [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/lemma_3a_5d1_5b8_5bc_5dc_5b7_5dc/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. denom. to give provender— Impf. וַיָּ֑בָל Ju 19:21 Qr (Kt ויבול) sq. לְ give provender to the asses.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: he fed (1).

## In the verses

[Judges 19:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.19.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.19.21/#tree)

וַיְבִיאֵ֣הוּ לְבֵית֔וֹ וַיָּ֖בָוללַחֲמוֹרִ֑ים וַֽיִּרְחֲצוּ֙ רַגְלֵיהֶ֔ם וַיֹּאכְל֖וּ וַיִּשְׁתּֽוּ׃

*Word for word:* and he brought.him to house his and he.fed (to) \[the\] donkeys and they.washed feet their and they.ate and they.drank

*JPS 1917:* So he brought him into his house, and gave the asses fodder; and they washed their feet, and did eat and drink.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5d1_5b8_5bc_5dc_5b7_5dc.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/lemma_3a_5d1_5b8_5bc_5dc_5b7_5dc/): 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).