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# בְּעוֹר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1160

**Beor** — used 10 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

Beor [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1160/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בְּעוֹר: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1160/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (a burning; 𝔗 torch)— father of Balaam Nu 22:5; 31:8 Dt 23:5 Jos 13:22; 24:9 Mi 6:5; בְּעֹר Nu 24:3, 15 (בנו ב׳). father of בֶּלַע, a king of Edom Gn 36:32 = 1 Ch 1:43.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 10 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (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 Beor (10).

## In the verses

[Genesis 36:32](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.36.32/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.36.32/#tree)

וַיִּמְלֹ֣ךְ בֶּאֱד֔וֹם בֶּ֖לַע בֶּן־בְּע֑וֹר וְשֵׁ֥ם עִיר֖וֹ דִּנְהָֽבָה׃

*Word for word:* and he.reigned in Edom Bela the.son of.Beor and the.name his.city his \[was\].Dinhabah

*JPS 1917:* And Bela the son of Beor reigned in Edom; and the name of his city was Dinhabah.

[Joshua 13:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.13.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.13.22/#tree)

וְאֶת־בִּלְעָ֥ם בֶּן־בְּע֖וֹר הַקּוֹסֵ֑ם הָרְג֧וּ בְנֵֽי־יִשְׂרָאֵ֛ל בַּחֶ֖רֶב אֶל־חַלְלֵיהֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* and (et) Balaam the.son of.Beor the diviner they.killed the.people of.Israel with the sword to their.slain \[ones\]

*JPS 1917:* Balaam also the son of Beor, the soothsayer, did the children of Israel slay with the sword among the rest of their slain.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1160.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1160/): 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).