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# בֶּלַע

Biblical Hebrew

**Bela** — used 2 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

Bela [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/lemma_3a_5d1_5b6_5bc_5dc_5b7_5e2/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בֶּ֫לַע³: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/lemma_3a_5d1_5b6_5bc_5dc_5b7_5e2/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. city = צֹעַר q.v. Gn 14:2, 8.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of Bela (2).

## In the verses

[Genesis 14:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.14.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.14.2/#tree)

עָשׂ֣וּ מִלְחָמָ֗ה אֶת־בֶּ֙רַע֙ מֶ֣לֶךְ סְדֹ֔ם וְאֶת־בִּרְשַׁ֖ע מֶ֣לֶךְ עֲמֹרָ֑ה שִׁנְאָ֣ב ׀ מֶ֣לֶךְ אַדְמָ֗ה וְשֶׁמְאֵ֙בֶר֙ מֶ֣לֶךְ צְבוֹיִ֔יםוּמֶ֥לֶךְ בֶּ֖לַע הִיא־צֹֽעַר׃

*Word for word:* they.made war with Bera the.king of.Sodom and with Birsha the.king of.Gomorrah Shinab the.king of.Admah and Shemeber the.king of.Zeboiim and the.king of.Bela that \[is\].Zoar

*JPS 1917:* that they made war with Bera king of Sodom, and with Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, and Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela — the same is Zoar.

[Genesis 14:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.14.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.14.8/#tree)

וַיֵּצֵ֨א מֶֽלֶךְ־סְדֹ֜ם וּמֶ֣לֶךְ עֲמֹרָ֗ה וּמֶ֤לֶךְ אַדְמָה֙ וּמֶ֣לֶךְ צְבוֹיִ֔ם וּמֶ֥לֶךְ בֶּ֖לַע הִוא־צֹ֑עַר וַיַּֽעַרְכ֤וּ אִתָּם֙ מִלְחָמָ֔ה בְּעֵ֖מֶק הַשִּׂדִּֽים׃

*Word for word:* and he.went.out the.king of.Sodom and the.king of.Gomorrah and the.king of.Admah and the.king of.Zeboiim and the.king of.Bela that \[is\].Zoar and they.deployed with them battle in the.valley of.(the) Siddim

*JPS 1917:* And there went out the king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrah, and the king of Admah, and the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela — the same is Zoar; and they set the battle in array against them in the vale of Siddim;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5d1_5b6_5bc_5dc_5b7_5e2.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/lemma_3a_5d1_5b6_5bc_5dc_5b7_5e2/): 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).