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# בֶלַע

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1105

**swallowing** — 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

swallowing [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1105/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בֶּ֫לַע: swallowing, devouring, thing swallowed [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1105/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] swallowing, devouring, thing swallowed. swallowing = destruction, דִּבְרֵי־בָ֑לַע ψ 52:6 devouring words (‖ לְשׁוֹן מִרְמָה). thing swallowed בִּלְעוֹ, Je 51:44 וְהֹצֵאתִי את־ב׳ מִפִּיו and I will bring forth that which he hath swallowed out of his mouth.

Why these entries: BDB: headword without dagesh, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 51:44](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.51.44/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.51.44/#tree)

וּפָקַדְתִּ֨י עַל־בֵּ֜ל בְּבָבֶ֗ל וְהֹצֵאתִ֤י אֶת־בִּלְעוֹ֙ מִפִּ֔יו וְלֹֽא־יִנְהֲר֥וּ אֵלָ֛יו ע֖וֹד גּוֹיִ֑ם גַּם־חוֹמַ֥ת בָּבֶ֖ל נָפָֽלָה׃

*Word for word:* and I.will.visit.\[judgment\] on Bel in Babylon and I.will.bring.out (et) thing his.swallowed from mouth his and not they.will.stream to him again nations also the.wall of.Babylon it.will.fall

*JPS 1917:* And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he hath swallowed up, and the nations shall not flow any more unto him; yea, the wall of Babylon shall fall.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1105.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1105/): 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).