בָּלַלbâlal
בָּלַל: mingle, mix, confuse, confound
Pronunciation: baw-lal' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H1101
Meanings
Qal
1. mingle, confuse (Genesis 11:7; Genesis 11:9)
2. mix (Leviticus 23:13; Leviticus 2:4; Exodus 29:40)
Hithpo`el: doth, mix himself, and we faded away, but read perhaps וַנִּכֹּל from נבל (Hosea 7:8; Isaiah 64:5)
בָּלַל: to give provender
Qal: give provender to (Judges 19:21)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 43 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 11:7 Come, let’s go down and confuse the people with different languages. Then they won’t be able to understand each other.”
- Genesis 11:9 That is why the city was called Babel, because that is where the Lord confused the people with different languages. In this way he scattered them all over the world.
- Exodus 29:2 Then, using choice wheat flour and no yeast, make loaves of bread, thin cakes mixed with olive oil, and wafers spread with oil.
- Exodus 29:40 With one of them, offer two quarts of choice flour mixed with one quart of pure oil of pressed olives; also, offer one quart of wine as a liquid offering.
- Leviticus 2:4 “If your offering is a grain offering baked in an oven, it must be made of choice flour, but without any yeast. It may be presented in the form of thin cakes mixed with olive oil or wafers spread with olive oil.
- Leviticus 2:5 If your grain offering is cooked on a griddle, it must be made of choice flour mixed with olive oil but without any yeast.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).