Strong's #1082: balag (pronounced baw-lag')

a primitive root; to break off or loose (in a favorable or unfavorable sense), i.e. desist (from grief) or invade (with destruction):--comfort, (recover) strength(-en).

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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bâlag

1) to gleam, smile

1a) (Hiphil) only

1a1) to show a smile, look pleasant

1a2) to cause to burst

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 4 times:

 

Job 9:27: "my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort"
Job 10:20: "few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort"
Psalms 39:13: "O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no"
Amos 5:9: " That strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong, so that the spoiled shall come the fortress."