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# בַּעֲלִיס

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1185

**Baalis** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Baalis [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1185/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בַּעֲלִיס: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1185/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (GrMonatsschrift, 1885, 471 reads בַּעְלִיס; = בֶּן־עֲלִיס son of delight? cf. sub בְּ) king of Ammonites Je 40:14 (Codd. & JosAnt.. x, 9, 2 read בעלים).

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

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 40:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.40.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.40.14/#tree)

וַיֹּאמְר֣וּ אֵלָ֗יו הֲיָדֹ֤עַתֵּדַע֙ כִּ֞י בַּעֲלִ֣יס ׀ מֶ֣לֶךְ בְּנֵֽי־עַמּ֗וֹן שָׁלַח֙ אֶת־יִשְׁמָעֵ֣אל בֶּן־נְתַנְיָ֔ה לְהַכֹּתְךָ֖ נָ֑פֶשׁ וְלֹא־הֶאֱמִ֣ין לָהֶ֔ם גְּדַלְיָ֖הוּ בֶּן־אֲחִיקָֽם׃

*Word for word:* and they.said to him at all.(know)? do.you.know (dm).that Baalis the.king of.the.people of.Ammon he.has.sent (et) Ishmael the.son of.Nethaniah to strike you life and not he.believed (to) them Gedaliah the.son of.Ahikam

*JPS 1917:* and said unto him: 'Dost thou know that Baalis the king of the children of Ammon hath sent Ishmael the son of Nethaniah to take thy life?' But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam believed them not.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1185/): 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).