H1104 בָּלַע
bâlaʻ — to make away with (specifically by swallowing); generally, to destroy
KJV: cover, destroy, devour, eat up, be at end, spend up, swallow down (up).
Occurs 49 times. Every verse with this word
Brown–Driver–Briggs
- בָּלַע vb. swallow down, swallow up, engulf
- Qal
- 1 swallow down
- 2 swallow up, engulf
- Niph. swallowed up, i.e. devastated
- Pi.
- 1 swallow
- 2 swallow up, engulf
- Pu. be swallowed up
- Hithp. their wisdom is all gone, ‘they are at their wit’s end’
Where it occurs
- Genesis 41:7 — The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven healthy and full ears. Pharaoh awoke, and behold, it was a dream.
- Genesis 41:24 — The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven good heads of grain. I told it to the magicians, but there was no one…
- Exodus 7:12 — For they each cast down their rods, and they became serpents; but Aaron’s rod swallowed up their rods.
- Exodus 15:12 — You stretched out your right hand. The earth swallowed them.
- Numbers 4:20 — but they shall not go in to see the sanctuary even for a moment, lest they die.”
- Numbers 16:30 — But if the LORD makes a new thing, and the ground opens its mouth, and swallows them up with all that belong to them…
- Numbers 16:32 — The earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up with their households, all of Korah’s men, and all their goods.
- Numbers 16:34 — All Israel that were around them fled at their cry; for they said, “Lest the earth swallow us up!”
- Numbers 26:10 — and the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korah when that company died; at the time the fire…
- Deuteronomy 11:6 — and what he did to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben—how the earth opened its mouth and swallowed…