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# בִּלְעָם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1109

**Balaam** — used 60 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

Balaam [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1109/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בִּלְעָם: n.pr.m. Balaam [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1109/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. Balaam (according to Sta§ 293 = בלע + ם; NbrStud. Bib. i, 226 proposes בל = בעל + (god) עם), son of בְּעוֹר, prophet from פְּתוֹר (q.v.):—Nu 22:5, 7, 8, 9 + 47 times Nu 22–24 (all JE) 31:8, 16 (P) Dt 23:5, 6 (D) (cf. RD Jos 13:22) Jos 24:9, 10 (E) Mi 6:5 Ne 13:2.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 13 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: Balaam (53); of Balaam (7).

## In the verses

[Numbers 22:39](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.22.39/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.22.39/#tree)

וַיֵּ֥לֶךְ בִּלְעָ֖ם עִם־בָּלָ֑ק וַיָּבֹ֖אוּ קִרְיַ֥ת חֻצֽוֹת קִרְיַ֥ת חֻצֽוֹת׃

*Word for word:* and he.went Balaam with Balak and they.came Kiriath-huzoth Kiriath-huzoth

*JPS 1917:* And Balaam went with Balak, and they came unto Kiriath-huzoth.

[Numbers 22:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.22.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.22.9/#tree)

וַיָּבֹ֥א אֱלֹהִ֖ים אֶל־בִּלְעָ֑ם וַיֹּ֕אמֶר מִ֛י הָאֲנָשִׁ֥ים הָאֵ֖לֶּה עִמָּֽךְ׃

*Word for word:* and he.came God to Balaam and he.said who? \[are\].the men (the) these with you

*JPS 1917:* And God came unto Balaam, and said: 'What men are these with thee?'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1109.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1109/): 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).