בְּלוֹא

belo · worn-out rags

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H1094 · appears 3 times in the Bible

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What it means

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

  1. 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.