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# בֶלַע

Biblical Hebrew

**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/lemma_3a_5d1_5b6_5dc_5b7_5e2/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בֶּ֫לַע: swallowing, devouring, thing swallowed [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/lemma_3a_5d1_5b6_5dc_5b7_5e2/#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, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Psalms 52:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.52.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.52.6/#tree)

אָהַ֥בְתָּ כָֽל־דִּבְרֵי־בָ֗לַע לְשׁ֣וֹן מִרְמָֽה׃

*Word for word:* you.love all words of.swallowing a.tongue of.deceit

*JPS 1917:* Thou lovest all devouring words, the deceitful tongue.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5d1_5b6_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_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).