בִּלְעָם
Bilʻâm · bil-awm'
Bilam, a Mesopotamian prophet; also a place in Palestine
Lexicon
Derivation: probably from H1077 (בַּל) and H5971 (עַם); not (of the) people, i.e. foreigner;
Bilam, a Mesopotamian prophet; also a place in Palestine
- Bilam, a Mesopotamian prophet
- also, a place in Palestine
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: Balaam, Bileam.
Letters
- בBet2
Picture: floor plan of a tent or house
- Concrete
- house · tent · dwelling
- Extended
- family · household · what is inside · in
- לLamed30
Picture: shepherd's staff or goad
- Concrete
- staff · goad · yoke · cattle prod
- Extended
- authority · to lead · to teach · to bind · toward
- עAyin70
Picture: an eye
- Concrete
- eye · spring of water
- Extended
- to see · to know · experience · to watch
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the house, what is within › authority, the one who leads › to see and know › water, chaos, the mighty deep
The house, what is within of authority, the one who leads that works to see and know of water, chaos, the mighty deep.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of בִּלְעָם above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
61 occurrences · 61 OT · 0 NT · 18 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- and balaam16 · 26%
- unto balaam14 · 23%
- balaam11 · 18%
- to balaam2 · 3%
- of balaam2 · 3%
- as balaam2 · 3%
- therefore unto balaam1 · 2%
- with balaam1 · 2%
- balaam's1 · 2%
- under balaam1 · 2%
- and balaam's1 · 2%
- so balaam1 · 2%
- that balaam1 · 2%
- in balaam's1 · 2%
- but balaam1 · 2%
- and when balaam1 · 2%
- against balaam1 · 2%
- against thee balaam1 · 2%
- and bileam1 · 2%
- and what balaam1 · 2%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.