Hebrew proper noun (a person) · H1111
בָּלָק
Balaqbaw-lawk'
Balak
43 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: Bâlâq
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1111is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 17spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H1111
Balak, a Moabitish king
The King James renders it: Balak.
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
Balaq is rendered "Balak". It stands 43 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- Forty of the uses stand in Numbers, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Numbers 22:2Now Balak son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites,
- The Greek text spells it seventeen different ways.
The first use
Now Balak son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites,
Numbers 22:2בָּלָ֖ק
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
- Balak39
- and Balak1
- more than Balak1
- O Balak1
- to Balak1
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.
The words it stands beside
All 43, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
17 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
- בָּלָ֖ק7
- בָּלָק֙7
- בָּלָ֔ק6
- בָּלָ֑ק5
- בָלָ֔ק2
- בָּלָ֧ק2
- בָּלָ֜ק2
- בָּלָ֗ק2
- בָלָֽק׃2
- בָלָ֛ק1
- בָלָ֤ק1
- בָלָ֜ק1
and 5 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- proper noun (a name)40HNpm
- preposition + proper noun (a name)2HR/Npm
- conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)1HC/Npm
Numbers
forty uses
Now Balak son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites,
- בָּלָ֖קbalakproper noun (a name)tagged: Balak
So the Moabites said to the elders of Midian, “This horde will devour everything around us, as an ox licks up the grass of the field.” Since Balak son of Zippor was king of Moab at that time,
- וּבָלָ֧קuvalakconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Balak
The elders of Moab and Midian departed with the fees for divination in hand. They came to Balaam and relayed to him the words of Balak.
- בָלָֽק׃valakproper noun (a name)tagged: Balak
And Balaam said to God, “Balak son of Zippor, king of Moab, sent me this message:
- בָּלָ֧קbalakproper noun (a name)tagged: Balak
So Balaam got up the next morning and said to Balak’s princes, “Go back to your homeland, because the LORD has refused to let me go with you.”
- בָלָ֔קvalakproper noun (a name)tagged: Balak
And the princes of Moab arose, returned to Balak, and said, “Balaam refused to come with us.”
- בָּלָ֑קbalakproper noun (a name)tagged: Balak
Then Balak sent other princes, more numerous and more distinguished than the first messengers.
- בָּלָ֑קbalakproper noun (a name)tagged: Balak
They came to Balaam and said, “This is what Balak son of Zippor says: ‘Please let nothing hinder you from coming to me,
- בָּלָ֣קbalakproper noun (a name)tagged: Balak
But Balaam replied to the servants of Balak, “If Balak were to give me his house full of silver and gold, I could not do anything small or great to go beyond the command of the LORD my God.
- בָלָ֔קvalakproper noun (a name)tagged: Balak
- בָלָ֛קvalakproper noun (a name)tagged: Balak
But the angel of the LORD said to Balaam, “Go with the men, but you are to speak only what I tell you.” So Balaam went with the princes of Balak.
- בָלָֽק׃valakproper noun (a name)tagged: Balak
When Balak heard that Balaam was coming, he went out to meet him at the Moabite city on the Arnon border, at the edge of his territory.
- בָּלָ֖קbalakproper noun (a name)tagged: Balak
And he said to Balaam, “Did I not send you an urgent summons? Why did you not come to me? Am I really not able to richly reward you?”
- בָּלָ֜קbalakproper noun (a name)tagged: Balak
“See, I have come to you,” Balaam replied, “but can I say just anything? I must speak only the word that God puts in my mouth.”
- בָּלָ֗קbalakproper noun (a name)tagged: Balak
So Balaam accompanied Balak, and they came to Kiriath-huzoth.
- בָּלָ֑קbalakproper noun (a name)tagged: Balak
Balak sacrificed cattle and sheep, and he gave portions to Balaam and the princes who were with him.
- בָּלָ֖קbalakproper noun (a name)tagged: Balak
The next morning, Balak took Balaam and brought him up to Bamoth-baal. From there he could see the outskirts of the camp of the people.
- בָּלָק֙balakproper noun (a name)tagged: Balak
Then Balaam said to Balak, “Build for me seven altars here, and prepare for me seven bulls and seven rams.”
- בָּלָ֔קbalakproper noun (a name)tagged: Balak
So Balak did as Balaam had instructed, and Balak and Balaam offered a bull and a ram on each altar.
- בָּלָ֔קbalakproper noun (a name)tagged: Balak
- בָּלָ֧קbalakproper noun (a name)tagged: Balak
“Stay here by your burnt offering while I am gone,” Balaam said to Balak. “Perhaps the LORD will meet with me. And whatever He reveals to me, I will tell you.” So Balaam went off to a barren height,
- לְבָלָ֗קlevalakpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: to Balak
Then the LORD put a message in Balaam’s mouth, saying, “Return to Balak and give him this message.”
- בָּלָ֖קbalakproper noun (a name)tagged: Balak
And Balaam lifted up an oracle, saying: “Balak brought me from Aram, the king of Moab from the mountains of the east. ‘Come,’ he said, ‘put a curse on Jacob for me; come and denounce Israel!’
- בָלָ֤קvalakproper noun (a name)tagged: Balak
Then Balak said to Balaam, “What have you done to me? I brought you here to curse my enemies, and behold, you have only blessed them!”
- בָּלָק֙balakproper noun (a name)tagged: Balak
Then Balak said to him, “Please come with me to another place where you can see them. You will only see the outskirts of their camp—not all of them. And from there, curse them for me.”
- בָּלָ֗קbalakproper noun (a name)tagged: Balak
Balaam said to Balak, “Stay here beside your burnt offering while I meet the LORD over there.”
- בָּלָ֔קbalakproper noun (a name)tagged: Balak
And the LORD met with Balaam and put a message in his mouth, saying, “Return to Balak and speak what I tell you.”
- בָּלָ֖קbalakproper noun (a name)tagged: Balak
So he returned to Balak, who was standing there by his burnt offering with the princes of Moab. “What did the LORD say?” Balak asked.
- בָּלָ֔קbalakproper noun (a name)tagged: Balak
Then Balaam lifted up an oracle, saying: “Arise, O Balak, and listen; give ear to me, O son of Zippor.
- בָּלָק֙balakproper noun (a name)tagged: O Balak
Now Balak said to Balaam, “Then neither curse them at all nor bless them at all!”
- בָּלָק֙balakproper noun (a name)tagged: Balak
But Balaam replied, “Did I not tell you that whatever the LORD says, I must do?”
- בָּלָ֑קbalakproper noun (a name)tagged: Balak
“Please come,” said Balak, “I will take you to another place. Perhaps it will please God that you curse them for me from there.”
- בָּלָק֙balakproper noun (a name)tagged: Balak
And Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, which overlooks the wasteland.
- בָּלָ֖קbalakproper noun (a name)tagged: Balak
Then Balaam said, “Build for me seven altars here, and prepare for me seven bulls and seven rams.”
- בָּלָ֔קbalakproper noun (a name)tagged: Balak
So Balak did as Balaam had instructed, and he offered a bull and a ram on each altar.
- בָּלָ֔קbalakproper noun (a name)tagged: Balak
Then Balak’s anger burned against Balaam, and he struck his hands together and said to Balaam, “I summoned you to curse my enemies, but behold, you have persisted in blessing them these three times.
- בָּלָק֙balakproper noun (a name)tagged: Balak
- בָּלָ֜קbalakproper noun (a name)tagged: Balak
Balaam answered Balak, “Did I not already tell the messengers you sent me
- בָּלָ֑קbalakproper noun (a name)tagged: Balak
that even if Balak were to give me his house full of silver and gold, I could not do anything of my own accord, good or bad, to go beyond the command of the LORD? I will speak whatever the LORD says.
- בָלָ֜קvalakproper noun (a name)tagged: Balak
Then Balaam arose and returned to his homeland, and Balak also went on his way.
- בָּלָ֖קbalakproper noun (a name)tagged: Balak
Joshua
one use
Then Balak son of Zippor, the king of Moab, set out to fight against Israel. He sent for Balaam son of Beor to curse you,
- בָּלָ֤קbalakproper noun (a name)tagged: Balak
Judges
one use
Are you now so much better than Balak son of Zippor, king of Moab? Did he ever contend with Israel or fight against them?
- מִבָּלָ֥קmibalakpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: more than Balak
Micah
one use
My people, remember what Balak king of Moab counseled and what Balaam son of Beor answered. Remember your journey from Shittim to Gilgal, so that you may acknowledge the righteousness of the LORD.’”
- בָּלָק֙balakproper noun (a name)tagged: Balak
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 words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
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.
