Hebrew verb · H1082
בָּלַג
balagbaw-lag'
be cheerful
4 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: bâlag
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1082is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 4spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H1082
to break off or loose (in a favorable or unfavorable sense), i.e. desist (from grief) or invade (with destruction)
The King James renders it: comfort, (recover) strength(-en).
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
balag is rendered "be cheerful". It stands 4 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- Two of the uses stand in Job, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Job 9:27If I were to say, ‘I will forget my complaint and change my expression and smile,’
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
If I were to say, ‘I will forget my complaint and change my expression and smile,’
Job 9:27וְאַבְלִֽיגָה׃
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and I will be cheerful1
- so I may be cheerful1
- so let me be cheerful1
- the causes to flash1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 4, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- הַמַּבְלִ֥יג1
- וְאַבְלִ֑יגָה1
- וְאַבְלִ֥יגָה1
- וְאַבְלִֽיגָה׃1
The grammar of each form
- conjunction (“and”) + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”) · 1st person common singular3HC/Vhc1cs
- the definite article (“the”) + verb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singular1HTd/Vhrmsa
Job
two uses
If I were to say, ‘I will forget my complaint and change my expression and smile,’
- וְאַבְלִֽיגָה׃veavligahconjunction (“and”) + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”) · 1st person common singulartagged: and I will be cheerful
Are my days not few? Withdraw from me, that I may have a little comfort,
- וְאַבְלִ֥יגָהveavligahconjunction (“and”) + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”) · 1st person common singulartagged: so I may be cheerful
Psalms
one use
Turn Your gaze away from me, that I may again be cheered before I depart and am no more.”
- וְאַבְלִ֑יגָהveavligahconjunction (“and”) + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”) · 1st person common singulartagged: so let me be cheerful
Amos
one use
He flashes destruction on the strong, so that fury comes upon the stronghold.
- הַמַּבְלִ֥יגhamavligthe definite article (“the”) + verb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singulartagged: the causes to flash
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.