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# בָּלַם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1102

**curb** — 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

curb [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1102/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בָּלַם: vb. curb, hold in [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1102/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. curb, hold in (NH id., Aramaic בְּלַם, ܒܠܰܡ )— Inf. לִבְלוֹם ψ 32:9, cf. Che.

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

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Psalms 32:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.32.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.32.9/#tree)

אַל־תִּֽהְי֤וּ ׀ כְּס֥וּס כְּפֶרֶד֮ אֵ֤ין הָ֫בִ֥ין בְּמֶֽתֶג־וָרֶ֣סֶן עֶדְי֣וֹ לִבְל֑וֹם בַּ֝֗ל קְרֹ֣ב אֵלֶֽיךָ׃

*Word for word:* do.not be like a.horse like a.mule \[which\].there.\[is\].not understanding with bridle and halter trapping\[s\] its to restrain not to.draw.near to you

*JPS 1917:* Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding; whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, that they come not near unto thee.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1102.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1102/): 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).