Hebrew adjective · H1087
בָּלֶה
balehbaw-leh'
old
5 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: bâleh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1087is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 5spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H1087
worn out
The King James renders it: old.
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
baleh is rendered "old". It stands 5 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- Four of the uses stand in Joshua, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Joshua 9:4acted deceptively and set out as envoys, carrying on their donkeys worn-out sacks and old wineskins, cracked and mended.
- The Greek text spells it five different ways.
The first use
acted deceptively and set out as envoys, carrying on their donkeys worn-out sacks and old wineskins, cracked and mended.
Joshua 9:4בָּלִים֙
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
- worn out4
- of the worn out1
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 5, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
5 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
- בָּל֤וֹת1
- בָּל֖וֹת1
- בָּלִים֙1
- בָּלִ֔ים1
- לַבָּלָ֖ה1
The grammar of each form
- adjective · feminine plural2HAafpa
- adjective · masculine plural2HAampa
- preposition with the article + adjective · feminine singular1HRd/Aafsa
Joshua
four uses
acted deceptively and set out as envoys, carrying on their donkeys worn-out sacks and old wineskins, cracked and mended.
- בָּלִים֙balimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: worn out
- בָּלִ֔יםbalimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: worn out
They put worn, patched sandals on their feet and threadbare clothing on their bodies, and their whole supply of bread was dry and moldy.
- בָּל֤וֹתbalotadjective · feminine pluraltagged: worn out
- בָּל֖וֹתbalotadjective · feminine pluraltagged: worn out
Ezekiel
one use
Then I said of her who had grown old in adulteries: ‘Now let them use her as a prostitute, for that is all she is!’
- לַבָּלָ֖הlabalahpreposition with the article + adjective · feminine singulartagged: of the worn out
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.