Strong's Hebrew · H1101

בָּלַל

bâlal · baw-lal'

anoint, confound, [idiom] fade, mingle, mix (self), give provender, temper.

Definition

to overflow (specifically with oil.); by implication, to mix; to fodder

Derivation

a primitive root; (also denominatively from H1098 (בְּלִיל)) to fodder

Appears 43 times in Scripture

Leviticus 7:12

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.

Exodus 29:2

along with unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil. Make them out of fine wheat flour,

Leviticus 7:10

and every grain offering, whether dry or mixed with oil, belongs equally to all the sons of Aaron.

Leviticus 14:21

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,

Exodus 29:40

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.

Genesis 11:7

Come, let Us go down and confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another’s speech.”

Leviticus 2:4

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.

Leviticus 2:5

If your offering is a grain offering prepared on a griddle, it must be unleavened bread made of fine flour mixed with oil.

Genesis 11:9

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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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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