Strong's #1104: bala` (pronounced baw-lah')

a primitive root; to make away with (specifically by swallowing); generally, to destroy:--cover, destroy, devour, eat up, be at end, spend up, swallow down (up).

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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bâla‛

1) to swallow down, swallow up, engulf, eat up

1a) (Qal)

1a1) to swallow down

1a2) to swallow up, engulf

1b) (Niphal) to be swallowed up

1c) (Piel)

1c1) to swallow

1c2) to swallow up, engulf

1c3) squandering (figuratively)

1d) (Pual) to be swallowed up

1e) (Hithpael) to be ended

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 49 times:

 

Genesis 41:7: "And the seven thin ears devoured the seven rank and full ears."
Genesis 41:24: "And the thin ears devoured the seven good ears: and I told"
Exodus 7:12: "serpents: but Aaron's rod swallowed up their rods."
Exodus 15:12: "Thou stretchedst out thy right hand, swallowed"
Numbers 4:20: "when the holy things are covered, lest they die."
Numbers 16:30: "open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them, and they go down"
Numbers 16:32: "opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men"
Numbers 16:34: "they said, Lest the earth swallow us up"
Numbers 26:10: "opened her mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korah, when that company"
Deuteronomy 11:6: "opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and their tents, and all the substance"
2 Samuel 17:16: "pass over; lest the king be swallowed up, and all the people that are with"
2 Samuel 20:19: "and a mother in Israel: why wilt thou swallow up the inheritance of the LORD?"
2 Samuel 20:20: "Far be it, far be it from me, that I should swallow up or destroy."
Job 2:3: "evil? and still he holdeth fast his integrity, although thou movedst me against him, to destroy him without cause."
Job 7:19: "me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?"
Job 8:18: "If he destroy then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen"
Job 10:8: "me together round about; yet thou dost destroy"
Job 20:15: " He hath swallowed down riches, God shall cast them out of his belly."
Job 20:18: "That which he labored for shall he restore, swallow it down: according to his substance shall the restitution be, and he shall not rejoice"
Job 37:20: "a man speak, surely he shall be swallowed up."
Psalms 21:9: "in the time of thine anger: the LORD shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour"
Psalms 35:25: "so would we have it: let them not say, We have swallowed him up."
Psalms 55:9: " Destroy, O Lord, their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife"
Psalms 69:15: "the waterflood me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut"
Psalms 106:17: "The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram."
Psalms 107:27: "They reel to and fro, and stagger and are at their wits' end. and are at their wits' end."
Psalms 124:3: "Then they had swallowed us up when their wrath was kindled"
Proverbs 1:12: " Let us swallow them up alive and whole, as those that go down into the pit:"
Proverbs 19:28: "judgment: and the mouth of the wicked devoureth iniquity."
Proverbs 21:20: "of the wise; but a foolish man spendeth it up."
Ecclesiastes 10:12: "are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up"
Isaiah 3:12: "over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths."
Isaiah 9:16: "cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed."
Isaiah 19:3: "of Egypt in the midst thereof; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the idols,"
Isaiah 25:7: " And he will destroy in this the face of the covering cast over all"
Isaiah 25:8: " He will swallow up death and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off"
Isaiah 28:4: "upon it seeth, while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up."
Isaiah 28:7: "and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through"
Isaiah 49:19: "now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and they that swallowed thee up shall be far away."
Jeremiah 51:34: "me, he hath made me an empty vessel, he hath swallowed me up like a dragon, he hath filled his belly with my delicacies,"
Lamentations 2:2: "The Lord hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and hath not pitied:"
Lamentations 2:5: "The Lord was he hath swallowed up Israel, he hath swallowed up all her palaces:"
Lamentations 2:5: "he hath swallowed up Israel, he hath swallowed up all her palaces: he hath destroyed his strongholds,"
Lamentations 2:8: "he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying: from destroying: therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament;"
Lamentations 2:16: "and gnash the teeth: they say, We have swallowed her up: certainly this is the day that we looked for;"
Hosea 8:7: "if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up."
Hosea 8:8: "Israel is swallowed up: shall they be among the Gentiles as a vessel wherein is no pleasure."
Jonah 1:17: "had prepared fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was"
Habakkuk 1:13: "lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and holdest thy tongue when the wicked devoureth the man that is more righteous than"