בָּלָק
Bâlâq · baw-lawk'
Balak, a Moabitish king
Lexicon
Derivation: from H1110 (בָּלַק); waster;
Balak, a Moabitish king
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: Balak.
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
- קQof100
Picture: the back of the head, or the sun on the horizon
- Concrete
- back of the head · rising sun · circle
- Extended
- what is behind · the last · a cycle · to come around again
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the house, what is within › authority, the one who leads › what comes behind, the returning cycle
The house, what is within of authority, the one who leads of what comes behind, the returning cycle.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of בָּלָק 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
43 occurrences · 43 OT · 0 NT · 17 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- and balak15 · 35%
- unto balak10 · 23%
- of balak4 · 9%
- balak4 · 9%
- if balak2 · 5%
- and when balak1 · 2%
- with balak1 · 2%
- that balak1 · 2%
- with him. and balak1 · 2%
- and balak's1 · 2%
- then balak1 · 2%
- than balak1 · 2%
- now what balak1 · 2%
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.