{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "H1104",
  "lemma": "בָּלַע",
  "transliteration": "bâlaʻ",
  "definition": "to make away with (specifically by swallowing); generally, to destroy",
  "kjv": "cover, destroy, devour, eat up, be at end, spend up, swallow down (up).",
  "occurrences": 49,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "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’"
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 41:7",
      "text": "The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven healthy and full ears. Pharaoh awoke, and behold, it was a dream.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/41?v=7"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 41:24",
      "text": "The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven good heads of grain. I told it to the magicians, but there was no one…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/41?v=24"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 7:12",
      "text": "For they each cast down their rods, and they became serpents; but Aaron’s rod swallowed up their rods.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/7?v=12"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 15:12",
      "text": "You stretched out your right hand. The earth swallowed them.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/15?v=12"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Numbers 4:20",
      "text": "but they shall not go in to see the sanctuary even for a moment, lest they die.”",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/4?v=20"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Numbers 16:30",
      "text": "But if the LORD makes a new thing, and the ground opens its mouth, and swallows them up with all that belong to them…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/16?v=30"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Numbers 16:32",
      "text": "The earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up with their households, all of Korah’s men, and all their goods.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/16?v=32"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Numbers 16:34",
      "text": "All Israel that were around them fled at their cry; for they said, “Lest the earth swallow us up!”",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/16?v=34"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Numbers 26:10",
      "text": "and the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korah when that company died; at the time the fire…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/26?v=10"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Deuteronomy 11:6",
      "text": "and what he did to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben—how the earth opened its mouth and swallowed…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/11?v=6"
    }
  ],
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