1. בָּלַע
swallow down, swallow up, engulf
The corpus record — Hebrew
וַתִּבְלַ֨עְנָה֙
bala · vb
swallow down, swallow up, engulf
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Distribution
- Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) 50 · 1.63/10k
Senses
2. בָּלַע
to make away with (specifically by swallowing); generally, to destroy
Attestations
- וַ/תִּבְלַ֨עְנָה֙ Genesis 41:7 (BHS)
- וַ/תִּבְלַ֨עְןָ֙ Genesis 41:24 (BHS)
- וַ/יִּבְלַ֥ע Exodus 7:12 (BHS)
- תִּבְלָעֵ֖/מוֹ Exodus 15:12 (BHS)
- כְּ/בַלַּ֥ע Numbers 4:20 (BHS)
- וּ/בָלְעָ֤ה Numbers 16:30 (BHS)
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Hebrew text from the Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology and lemmatization from the OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible (OSHB), CC BY 4.0. Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) lexicon, public domain.