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# בַּעֲלָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1173

**Baalah** — used 5 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

Baalah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1173/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בַּעֲלָה²: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1173/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. Jos 15:9, 10, 11, 29 1 Ch 13:6 = קִרְיַת בַּעַל Jos 15:60; 18:14 (city of Baal, from a high place of Baal there) = בַּעֲלֵי יְהוּדָה 2 S 6:2 (We Dr read בעל; י added by dittogr.; so-called as seat of Baal-worship in Judah, in distinct. from like places elsewhere) = קִרְיַת יְעָרִים Jos 9:17 v. 15:9 1 Ch 13:6; a city of Judah;? Kirjat elʿEnab RobBR ii. 11 TristrTpg..

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 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: Baalah (4); to (1).

## In the verses

[Joshua 15:29](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.15.29/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.15.29/#tree)

בַּעֲלָ֥ה וְעִיִּ֖ים וָעָֽצֶם׃

*Word for word:* Baalah and Iim and Ezem

*JPS 1917:* Baalah, and Iim, and Ezem;

[Joshua 15:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.15.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.15.9/#tree)

וְתָאַ֨ר הַגְּב֜וּל מֵרֹ֣אשׁ הָהָ֗ר אֶל־מַעְיַן֙ מֵ֣י נֶפְתּ֔וֹחַ וְיָצָ֖א אֶל־עָרֵ֣י הַר־עֶפְר֑וֹן וְתָאַ֤ר הַגְּבוּל֙ בַּעֲלָ֔ה הִ֖יא קִרְיַ֥ת יְעָרִֽים קִרְיַ֥ת יְעָרִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and it.turns the border from the.top of the.mountain to the.spring of.the.waters of.Nephtoah and it.goes.out to the.cities of.the.mountain of.Ephron and it.turns the border Baalah that \[is\].Kiriath Jearim

*JPS 1917:* And the border was drawn from the top of the mountain unto the fountain of the waters of Nephtoah, and went out to the cities of mount Ephron; and the border was drawn to Baalah — the same is Kiriath-jearim.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1173.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1173/): 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).