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# בָּעַל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1166

**marry** — used 16 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

marry [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1166/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בָּעַל: vb. marry, rule over loathe [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1166/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. marry, rule over (cf. Arabic بَعَلَ = own, possess, especially a wife or concubine; Ethiopic ብዕለ to be rich, Assyrian bâlu, rule COTGloss., Aramaic בְּעַל take possession of wife or concubine)— Pf. Mal 2:11 + 6 times Impf. יִבְעַל Is 62:5(×2); Pt. sf. בֹּעֲלַיִךְ Is 54:5; pass. f. בְּעוּלָה Is 54:1 + 3 times;— marry Gn 20:3 (E) Dt 21:13; 22:22; 24:1 Is 54:1, 5; 62:4, 5(×2) Mal 2:11; sq. בְּ Je 3:14; 31:32 be lord (husband) over. Je 3:14; 31:32 AW JosKi Thes, comparing Arabic بَعَلَ be disgusted, derive from II. בָּעַל loathe (sq. בְּ); so Buhl: Gie Du Co in 31:32 read גָּעַלְתִּי (treating 3:14 as I. בָּעַל). rule over 1 Ch 4:22 (sq. לְ) Is 26:13. Impf. תִּבָּעֵל Pr 30:23 Is 62:4 be married.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 14 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, 0 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: married (2); they (2); I am master (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 30:23](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.30.23/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.30.23/#tree)

תַּ֣חַת שְׂ֭נוּאָה כִּ֣י תִבָּעֵ֑ל וְ֝שִׁפְחָ֗ה כִּֽי־תִירַ֥שׁ גְּבִרְתָּֽהּ׃פ

*Word for word:* under a.\[woman.who.is\].hated (dm) she.will.be.married and a.female.servant (dm) she.will.dispossess mistress her

*JPS 1917:* For an odious woman when she is married; and a handmaid that is heir to her mistress.

[Isaiah 26:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.26.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.26.13/#tree)

יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֵ֔ינוּ בְּעָל֥וּנוּ אֲדֹנִ֖ים זֽוּלָתֶ֑ךָ לְבַד־בְּךָ֖ נַזְכִּ֥יר שְׁמֶֽךָ׃

*Word for word:* O.Yahweh God our they have.ruled.over.us lords except you only in you we.bring.to.remembrance name your

*JPS 1917:* O LORD our God, other lords beside Thee have had dominion over us; but by Thee only do we make mention of Thy name.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1166.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1166/): 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).