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# בִּלְעָם

Biblical Hebrew

**Bileam** — 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

Bileam [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/lemma_3a_5d1_5b4_5bc_5dc_5b0_5e2_5b8_5dd/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בִּלְעָם²: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/lemma_3a_5d1_5b4_5bc_5dc_5b0_5e2_5b8_5dd/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. town in Manasseh 1 Ch 6:55; A Ιβλααμ, 𝔊L Ιεβλααμ = יִבְלְעָם (q.v.) Jos 17:11 + 2 times mod. Belʿame, 6 hours N. of Nâblus, BdPal. 228, so Surveyii. 47.

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, 0 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: Bileam (1).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 6:55](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.6.55/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.6.55/#tree)

וּמִֽמַּחֲצִית֙ מַטֵּ֣ה מְנַשֶּׁ֔ה אֶת־עָנֵר֙ וְאֶת־מִגְרָשֶׁ֔יהָ וְאֶת־בִּלְעָ֖ם וְאֶת־מִגְרָשֶׁ֑יהָ לְמִשְׁפַּ֥חַת לִבְנֵי־קְהָ֖ת הַנּוֹתָרִֽים׃פ

*Word for word:* and from the.half of.the.tribe of.Manasseh (et) Aner and (et) lands its.pasture and (et) Bileam and (et) lands its.pasture to the.clan of the.descendants of.Kohath \[who\] remained

*JPS 1917:* and out of the half-tribe of Manasseh: Aner with the open land about it, and Bileam with the open land about it, for the rest of the family of the sons of Kohath.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5d1_5b4_5bc_5dc_5b0_5e2_5b8_5dd.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/lemma_3a_5d1_5b4_5bc_5dc_5b0_5e2_5b8_5dd/): 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).