Hebrew Lexicon Strong's Concordance Definition

Strong's H1104: בָּלַע (bâlaʻ) Definition

Strong's number
H1104
Lemma
בָּלַע
Transliteration
bâlaʻ
Pronunciation
baw-lah'
Strong's definition
to make away with (specifically by swallowing); generally, to destroy cover, destroy, devour, eat up, be at end, spend up, swallow down (up). a primitive root;

48 instances of the word בָּלַע bâlaʻ (H1104)


  • Jeremiah 51:34 - hath devoured me he hath crushed Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon me he hath made vessel me an empty he hath swallowed me up like a dragon he hath filled his belly with my delicates he hath cast me out

  • Job 2:3 - said And the LORD unto Satan Hast thou considered my servant Job that there is none like him in the earth man a perfect and an upright one that feareth God and escheweth evil and still he holdeth fast his integrity although thou movedst me against him to destroy him without cause

  • Job 7:19 - How long wilt thou not depart from me nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle

  • Job 8:18 - If he destroy him from his place then it shall deny him saying I have not seen

  • Job 10:8 - Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about yet thou dost destroy

  • Job 20:15 - riches He hath swallowed down and he shall vomit them up again of his belly shall cast them out God

  • Job 20:18 - for shall he restore That which he laboured and shall not swallow it down according to his substance shall the restitution be and he shall not rejoice

  • Job 37:20 - Shall it be told him that I speak speak if a man surely he shall be swallowed up

  • Jonah 1:17 - had prepared Now the LORD fish a great to swallow up And Jonah And Jonah was in the belly fish and three days and three nights

  • Lamentations 2:2 - hath swallowed up The Lord and hath not pitied all the habitations of Jacob he hath thrown down in his wrath the strong holds of the daughter of Judah he hath brought them down to the ground he hath polluted the kingdom and the princes

  • Lamentations 2:5 - The Lord was as an enemy he hath swallowed up Israel he hath swallowed up all her palaces he hath destroyed his strong holds and hath increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation

  • Lamentations 2:8 - hath purposed The LORD to destroy and the wall of the daughter of Zion he hath stretched out a line he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying to lament therefore he made the rampart and the wall together they languished

  • Lamentations 2:16 - have opened their mouth All thine enemies against thee they hiss and gnash the teeth they say We have swallowed her up certainly this is the day that we looked for we have found we have seen

  • Numbers 4:20 - But they shall not go in to see are covered when the holy things lest they die

  • Numbers 16:30 - a new thing make But if the LORD open and the earth her mouth and swallow them up with all that appertain unto them and they go down quick into the pit then ye shall understand have provoked But if the LORD

  • Numbers 16:32 - opened And the earth her mouth and swallowed them up and their houses and all the men that appertained unto Korah and all their goods

  • Numbers 16:34 - And all Israel that were round about them fled at the cry of them for they said swallow us up Lest the earth

  • Numbers 26:10 - opened And the earth her mouth and swallowed them up together with Korah died when that company devoured what time the fire and fifty two hundred men and they became a sign

  • Proverbs 1:12 - Let us swallow them up as the grave alive and whole as those that go down into the pit

  • Proverbs 19:28 - witness An ungodly scorneth judgment and the mouth of the wicked devoureth iniquity