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# בַּעֲלָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1172

**mistress** — used 4 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

mistress [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1172/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בַּעֲלָה: n.f. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1172/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. mistress, בַּעֲלַת הַבַּיִת mistress of the house 1 K 17:17. n. rel. ב׳ אוב necromancer 1 S 28:7(×2); ב׳ כשׁפים sorceress, Na 3:4.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: (of) a mistress (2); a mistress (1); the mistress (1).

## In the verses

[Nahum 3:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/NAM.3.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/NAM.3.4/#tree)

מֵרֹב֙ זְנוּנֵ֣י זוֹנָ֔ה ט֥וֹבַת חֵ֖ן בַּעֲלַ֣ת כְּשָׁפִ֑ים הַמֹּכֶ֤רֶת גּוֹיִם֙ בִּזְנוּנֶ֔יהָ וּמִשְׁפָּח֖וֹת בִּכְשָׁפֶֽיהָ׃

*Word for word:* from.\[the\] abundance of.\[the\].prostitution(s) of.a.prostitute good of.grace a.mistress of.sorceries \[who\] sells nations by prostitution(s) her and clans by sorceries her

*JPS 1917:* Because of the multitude of the harlotries of the well-favoured harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her harlotries, and families through her witchcrafts.

[1 Kings 17:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.17.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.17.17/#tree)

וַיְהִ֗י אַחַר֙ הַדְּבָרִ֣ים הָאֵ֔לֶּה חָלָ֕ה בֶּן־הָאִשָּׁ֖ה בַּעֲלַ֣ת הַבָּ֑יִת וַיְהִ֤י חָלְיוֹ֙ חָזָ֣ק מְאֹ֔ד עַ֛ד אֲשֶׁ֥ר לֹא־נֽוֹתְרָה־בּ֖וֹ נְשָׁמָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and it.was after the things (the) these he.became.sick the.son of the.woman the.mistress of the.house and it.was sickness his severe very until that not it.was.left in him breath

*JPS 1917:* And it came to pass after these things, that the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, fell sick; and his sickness was so sore, that there was no breath left in him.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1172.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1172/): 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).