בָּלַק
balak · lay waste
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H1110 · appears 2 times in the Bible
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balak (בָּלַק) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “lay waste”.
To lay waste, to empty something completely.
How to say it
ba·lak
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
- To leave a place empty and wrecked.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- devastated ×1
- laying it waste ×1
Related words
Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Isaiah 24:1
Look, YHWH is emptying the earth and laying it waste; and he distorts its surface and scatters its inhabitants.
- Nahum 2:10
Empty, and emptied, and devastated; and the heart melts, and the knees totter, and trembling is in every waist, and the faces of all of them grow pale.