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H1104בָּלַעba.la

to swallow upPart of speech: Hebrew Verb

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Occurrences by book

  1. 2
  2. 2
  3. Leviticus: 0
  4. 5
  5. 1
  6. Joshua: 0
  7. Judges: 0
  8. Ruth: 0
  9. 1 Samuel: 0
  10. 3
  11. 1 Kings: 0
  12. 2 Kings: 0
  13. 1 Chronicles: 0
  14. 2 Chronicles: 0
  15. Ezra: 0
  16. Nehemiah: 0
  17. Esther: 0
  18. 7
  19. 7
  20. 3
  21. 1
  22. Song of Songs: 0
  23. 8
  24. 1
  25. 5
  26. Ezekiel: 0
  27. Daniel: 0
  28. 2
  29. Joel: 0
  30. Amos: 0
  31. Obadiah: 0
  32. 1
  33. Micah: 0
  34. Nahum: 0
  35. 1
  36. Zephaniah: 0
  37. Haggai: 0
  38. Zechariah: 0
  39. Malachi: 0

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49 occurrences in 48 verses

With their references and text in World English Bible.

  1. Psalms 107:27

    They reel back and forth, and stagger like a drunken man, And are at their wits' end.

    תִּתְבַּלָּֽע׃ tit.ba.La' “it was confused”

  2. Psalms 124:3

    Then they would have swallowed us up alive, When their wrath was kindled against us;

    בְּלָע֑וּנוּ (בְּלָע֑וּ) be.la.'U. “they had swallowed up”

  3. Proverbs 1:12

    Let's swallow them up alive like Sheol, And whole, like those who go down into the pit.

    נִ֭בְלָעֵם (נִ֭בְלָעֵ) Niv.la.'e “let us engulf”

  4. Proverbs 19:28

    A corrupt witness mocks justice, And the mouth of the wicked gulps down iniquity.

    יְבַלַּע־ ye.va.la'- “it swallows up”

  5. Proverbs 21:20

    There is precious treasure and oil in the dwelling of the wise; But a foolish man swallows it up.

    יְבַלְּעֶֽנּוּ׃ (יְבַלְּעֶֽ) ye.val.le.'E. “he swallows up”

  6. Ecclesiastes 10:12

    The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but a fool is swallowed by his own lips.

    תְּבַלְּעֶֽנּוּ׃ (תְּבַלְּעֶֽ) te.val.le.'E. “it swallows”

  7. Isaiah 3:12

    As for my people, children are their oppressors, And women rule over them. My people, those who lead you cause you to err, And destroy the way of your paths.

    בִּלֵּֽעוּ׃ bi.Le.'u “they have confused”

  8. Isaiah 9:16

    For those who lead this people cause them to err; and those who are led of them are destroyed.

    מְבֻלָּעִֽים׃ me.vu.la.'Im “[were] confused”

  9. Isaiah 19:3

    The spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst of it; and I will destroy the counsel of it: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to those who have familiar spirits, and to the wizards.

    אֲבַלֵּ֑עַ 'a.va.Le.a' “I will confuse”

  10. Isaiah 25:7

    He will destroy in this mountain the surface of the covering that covers all peoples, and the veil that is spread over all nations.

    וּבִלַּע֙ (בִלַּע֙) vi.La' “he will swallow up”

  11. Isaiah 25:8

    He has swallowed up death forever; and the Lord Yahweh will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the reproach of his people will he take away from off all the earth: for Yahweh has spoken it.

    בִּלַּ֤ע bi.La' “he will swallow up”

  12. Isaiah 28:4

    and the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be as the first-ripe fig before the summer; which when he who looks on it sees, while it is yet in his hand he eats it up.

    יִבְלָעֶֽנָּה׃ (יִבְלָעֶֽ) yiv.la.'E. “he will swallow”

  13. Isaiah 28:7

    Even these reel with wine, and stagger with strong drink; the priest and the prophet reel with strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they stagger with strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.

    נִבְלְע֣וּ niv.le.'U “they were confused”

  14. Isaiah 49:19

    For, as for your waste and your desolate places, and your land that has been destroyed, surely now shall you be too small for the inhabitants, and those who swallowed you up shall be far away.

    מְבַלְּעָֽיִךְ׃ (מְבַלְּעָֽיִ) me.va.le.'A.yi “[those who] swallowed up”

  15. Jeremiah 51:34

    Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me, he has crushed me, he has made me an empty vessel, he has, like a monster, swallowed me up, he has filled his maw with my delicacies; he has cast me out.

    בְּלָעַ֙נִי֙ (בְּלָעַ֙) be.la.'a. “he swallowed”

  16. Lamentations 2:2

    The Lord has swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and has not pitied: He has thrown down in his wrath the strongholds of the daughter of Judah; He has brought them down to the ground; he has profaned the kingdom and the princes of it.

    בִּלַּ֨ע bi.La' “he has swallowed up”

  17. Lamentations 2:5

    The Lord is become as an enemy, he has swallowed up Israel; He has swallowed up all her palaces, he has destroyed his strongholds; He has multiplied in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.

    בִּלַּ֣ע bi.La' “he has swallowed up”בִּלַּע֙ bi.La' “he has swallowed up”

  18. Lamentations 2:8

    Yahweh has purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion; He has stretched out the line, he has not withdrawn his hand from destroying; He has made the rampart and wall to lament; they languish together.

    מִבַּלֵּ֑עַ (בַּלֵּ֑עַ) ba.Le.a' “swallowing up”

  19. Lamentations 2:16

    All your enemies have opened their mouth wide against you; 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 it.

    בִּלָּ֑עְנוּ bi.La.'e.nu “we have swallowed up”

  20. Hosea 8:7

    For they sow the wind, And they will reap the whirlwind. He has no standing grain. The stalk will yield no head. If it does yield, strangers will swallow it up.

    יִבְלָעֻֽהוּ׃ (יִבְלָעֻֽ) yiv.la.'U. “they will swallow”

  21. Hosea 8:8

    Israel is swallowed up. Now they are among the nations like a worthless thing.

    נִבְלַ֖ע niv.La' “it will be swallowed”

  22. Jonah 1:17

    Yahweh prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah, and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.

    לִבְלֹ֖עַ (בְלֹ֖עַ) v.Lo.a' “swallow”

  23. Habakkuk 1:13

    You who have purer eyes than to see evil, and who cannot look on perversity, why do you tolerate those who deal treacherously, and keep silent when the wicked swallows up the man who is more righteous than he,

    בְּבַלַּ֥ע (בַלַּ֥ע) va.La' “swallows up”