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# בָּלָק

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1111

**Balak** — used 43 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

Balak [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1111/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בָּלָק: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1111/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (devastator) king of Moab, בּ׳ בֶּן צִפּוֹר Nu 22:2, 4, 7 + 37 times Nu 22–24 (all JE) + Jos 24:9 (E) Ju 11:25 Mi 6:5.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Balak (36); of Balak (5); O Balak (1).

## In the verses

[Numbers 22:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.22.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.22.15/#tree)

וַיֹּ֥סֶף ע֖וֹד בָּלָ֑ק שְׁלֹ֣חַ שָׂרִ֔ים רַבִּ֥ים וְנִכְבָּדִ֖ים מֵאֵֽלֶּה׃

*Word for word:* and he.repeated again Balak to.send leaders many and honored more than.these

*JPS 1917:* And Balak sent yet again princes, more, and more honourable than they.

[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.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1111.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1111/): 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).