Strong’s
H1172Noun, feminine4 times in the Hebrew BibleWhere it occurs
Translated as
In the text
- 1 Samuel 28:7בַּעֲלַת
Then Saul said to his servants, “Find me a woman who is a medium, so I can go and consult her.” “There is a medium at Endor,” his servants replied.
- 1 Kings 17:17בַּעֲלַת
Later, the son of the woman who owned the house became ill, and his sickness grew worse and worse, until no breath remained in him.
- Nahum 3:4בַּעֲלַת
because of the many harlotries of the harlot, the seductive mistress of sorcery, who betrays nations by her prostitution and clans by her witchcraft.
Brown-Driver-Briggs
[בַּעֲלָה] n.f.
1. mistress
2. necromancer; sorceress
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.