Strong’s
H1105Noun, masculine2 times in the Hebrew BibleWhere it occurs
Translated as
In the text
- Psalm 52:4בָלַע
You love every word that devours, O deceitful tongue.
- Jeremiah 51:44בִּלְעוֹ
I will punish Bel in Babylon. I will make him spew out what he swallowed. The nations will no longer stream to him; even the wall of Babylon will fall.
Brown-Driver-Briggs
בֶ֫לַע n.[m.] swallowing, devouring, thing swallowed.
1. swallowing = destruction
2. thing swallowed
Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.