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Strong's #1105 - בֶּלַע
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- a swallowing, devouring (figuratively for ruin)
- a thing swallowed
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2020) olb (בלאה BLAh) AC: Swallow CO: ? AB: ?: [from: lb- flowing down the throat]
V) olb (בלאה BLAh) - Swallow: KJV (49): (vf: Paal, Niphal, Hitpael, Pual, Piel) swallow, destroy, devour, covered - Strongs: H1104 (בָּלַע)
Nm) olb (בלאה BLAh) - Swallowed: KJV (2): devouring, swallowed - Strongs: H1105 (בֶּלַע)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
1 swallowing = destruction, דִּבְרֵיבָֿ֑לַע Psalm 52:6 devouring words ("" לְשׁוֺן מִרְמָה).
2 thing swallowed בִּלְעוֺ, Jeremiah 51:44 ׳וְהֹצֵאתִי אתבֿמִמִּיו and I will bring forth that which he hath swallowed out of his mouth.
בֶּלַע m. with suff. בִּלְעִי
(1) a devouring, something devoured, Jeremiah 51:44.
(2) destruction, Psalms 52:6.
(3) [Bela], pr.n. of a city on the southern shore of the Dead Sea, called also צֹעַר (little), Genesis 14:2, Genesis 14:8, 19:20, seq.
(4) pr.n. m.
(a) of a king of the Edomites, Genesis 36:32.
(b) Genesis 46:21.
(c) 1 Chronicles 5:8.
