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# בָּלַק

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1110

**waste** — 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

waste [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1110/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בָּלַק: vb. waste, lay waste [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1110/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. waste, lay waste (Assyrian balâḳu, Pi. destroy, LyonSargon 61; cf. Arabic بَلُّوقَةٌ a desert)— Pt. without מ, sf. בּוֹלְקָהּ Is 24:1 (‖ בּוֹקֵק, subj. י׳, obj. הארץ);—on form (which might also be Qal Pt.) cf. Ol§ 254 LagGN 1882, 403; also בקק Po. Je 51:2, and intensive use of Inf. abs. Niph. Is 24:3; further Pu. (i.e. intens.) Pt. Na 2:11 (this however perhaps largely influenced by assonance). Pt. מְבֻלָּקָ֑ה Na 2:11 (בּוּקָה וּמְבוּקָה ומב׳), devastated, or as subst. a devastated city.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech differs, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech differs, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[he (1); devastation (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 24:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.24.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.24.1/#tree)

הִנֵּ֧ה יְהוָ֛ה בּוֹקֵ֥ק הָאָ֖רֶץ וּבֽוֹלְקָ֑הּ וְעִוָּ֣ה פָנֶ֔יהָ וְהֵפִ֖יץ יֹשְׁבֶֽיהָ׃

*Word for word:* here! Yahweh \[is\].about.to.lay.waste the earth and \[he is\].about.to.devastate.it and he.will.twist surface its and he.will.scatter inhabitants its

*JPS 1917:* Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.

[Nahum 2:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/NAM.2.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/NAM.2.11/#tree)

בּוּקָ֥ה וּמְבוּקָ֖ה וּמְבֻלָּקָ֑ה וְלֵ֨ב נָמֵ֜ס וּפִ֣ק בִּרְכַּ֗יִם וְחַלְחָלָה֙ בְּכָל־מָתְנַ֔יִם וּפְנֵ֥י כֻלָּ֖ם קִבְּצ֥וּ פָארֽוּר׃

*Word for word:* emptiness and emptiness and devastation and a.heart melting and tottering of.knees and anguish \[is\].in all loins and the.faces all.of.them their they.have.gathered a.glow

*JPS 1917:* She is empty, and void, and waste; and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and convulsion is in all loins, and the faces of them all have gathered blackness.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1110.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1110/): 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).