The corpus record — Hebrew

בֶּ֖לַע

bela · n.pr.loc

Bela

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Distribution

Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) 14 · 0.46/10k

Senses

1. בֶּ֫לַע

Bela

2. בֶ֫לַע

Bela

3. בֶּלַע

Bela, the name of a place, also of an Edomite and of two Israelites

4. בלע

balalaika, which, according to Erich Berneker is related to Russ

5. בלע

without anything

6. בלע

Ethiop

7. בלע

Attestations

בֶּ֖לַע Genesis 14:2 (BHS)
בֶּ֖לַע Genesis 14:8 (BHS)
בֶּ֖לַע Genesis 36:32 (BHS)
בָּ֑לַע Genesis 36:33 (BHS)
בֶּ֤לַע Genesis 46:21 (BHS)
לְ/בֶ֗לַע Numbers 26:38 (BHS)

6 of 14 attestations shown.

Deep etymology

Authority pointers, pending review

These are the etymology authorities that treat this word, with their exact locators. They are bibliographic pointers, not a published word history: no root, reconstruction, derivation, cognate, or origin is asserted here.

Klein, A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Hebrew Language (Carta 1987) scan p. 100; entry #1972 Review: Under source audit

The authorities' own wording is withheld pending review. Each source's identity, locator, and review status are cited above.

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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.