בָּלֶה
bale · worn out
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H1087 · appears 5 times in the Bible
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bale (בָּלֶה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “worn out”.
Old from use.
How to say it
ba·le
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
- Old and frayed from use.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- worn-out ×4
- one worn out ×1
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Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Joshua 9:4
and they too acted with cunning: they went and posed as envoys, and took worn-out sacks for their donkeys, and wineskins worn-out, torn, and mended,
- Joshua 9:5
and worn-out and patched sandals on their feet, and worn-out cloaks on them; and all the bread of their provision was dry and crumbled.
- Ezekiel 23:43
And I said of the one worn out with adulteries, ‘Now they will commit her prostitutions, and she too.’
And 2 more times.