בֶּלַעbelaʻ

swallowing, devouring, thing swallowed

Pronunciation: beh'-lah · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H1105

Meanings

1. swallowing = destruction (Psalms 52:6)

2. thing swallowed (Jeremiah 51:44)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 2 times in the Bible.

  • Psalms 52:4 You love to destroy others with your words, you liar!
  • Jeremiah 51:44 And I will punish Bel, the god of Babylon, and make him vomit up all he has eaten. The nations will no longer come and worship him. The wall of Babylon has fallen!

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).