בַּעֲלָה
baala · mistress, owner
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H1172 · appears 4 times in the Bible
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baala (בַּעֲלָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “mistress, owner”.
Owner, mistress; a woman who possesses or practices something. "Mistress of a spirit of the dead" is the woman who claims to call up the dead, a thing YHWH's law forbade (Deuteronomy 18:10-12).
How to say it
ba·a·la
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- The woman in charge of the house.
- A woman who claims to make the departed speak.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- mistress ×2
- who calls up the dead ×2
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Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- 1 Samuel 28:7
Saul said to his servants, “Seek for me a woman who calls up the dead, that I may go to her and consult through her.” His servants said to him, “Look, there is a woman who calls up the dead at Endor.”
- 1 Kings 17:17
And it happened after these things that the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, fell sick; and his sickness was very severe, until there was no breath left in him.
- Nahum 3:4
because of the multitude of the prostitutions of the prostitute, beautiful in grace, mistress of sorceries, who sells nations by her prostitutions and families by her sorceries.
And 1 more times.