Strong's Hebrew · H1101
H1101 bâlal
בָּלַל
baw-lal'
to mix
Looking for Greek G1101 glōssókomon? It has the same number in Strong's Greek lexicon but is a different word, not a translation of H1101. Strong's numbering starts again for each language.
bâlal appears 43 times in Scripture, including Genesis 11:7 and Exodus 29:2. In the Doxa app, open any verse that uses it, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.
Definition
to overflow (specifically with oil.); by implication, to mix; to fodder
In the King James Version
anoint, confound, × fade, mingle, mix (self), give provender, temper.
Derivation
a primitive root; (also denominatively from H1098 (בְּלִיל)) to fodder
Appears 43 times in Scripture
“If he offers it in thanksgiving, then along with the sacrifice of thanksgiving he shall offer unleavened cakes mixed with olive oil, unleavened wafers coated with oil, and well-kneaded cakes of fine flour mixed with oil.”
“along with unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil. Make them out of fine wheat flour,”
“and every grain offering, whether dry or mixed with oil, belongs equally to all the sons of Aaron.”
“If, however, the person is poor and cannot afford these offerings, he is to take one male lamb as a guilt offering to be waved to make atonement for him, along with a tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with olive oil for a grain offering, a log of olive oil,”
“With the first lamb offer a tenth of an ephah of fine flour, mixed with a quarter hin of oil from pressed olives, and a drink offering of a quarter hin of wine.”
“Come, let Us go down and confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another’s speech.””
“Now if you bring an offering of grain baked in an oven, it must consist of fine flour, either unleavened cakes mixed with oil or unleavened wafers coated with oil.”
“If your offering is a grain offering prepared on a griddle, it must be unleavened bread made of fine flour mixed with oil.”
“That is why it is called Babel, for there the LORD confused the language of the whole world, and from that place the LORD scattered them over the face of all the earth.”
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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).
