בְּלוֹא
belo · worn-out rags
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H1094 · appears 3 times in the Bible
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belo (בְּלוֹא) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “worn-out rags”.
Old rags, worn-out clothing.
How to say it
be·lo
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
- Cloths no longer used.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- old ×2
- worn-out ×1
Where it appears
- Jeremiah 38:11
So Ebed-melech took the men with him and went into the house of the king, to a place under the treasury, and took from there old rags and worn-out clothes, and let them down to Jeremiah into the cistern with ropes.
- Jeremiah 38:12
And Ebed-melech the Cushite said to Jeremiah, “Put, please, the old rags and the worn-out clothes under your armpits, beneath the ropes.” And Jeremiah did so.
And 1 more times.